HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors · Washington

Pacific Heating & Cooling

Name: Pacific Heating & Cooling Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lakewood, WA · ~98 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.2
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Pacific Heating & Cooling runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Pacific Heating & Cooling: 6.2 TCR = 220% of HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pacific Heating & Cooling safety composite

Pacific Heating & Cooling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Pacific Heating & Cooling: 5.9 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2020

Pacific Heating & Cooling's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.9 in 2019 to 6.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Lakewood, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.2 · 220% of ind

DART 6.4 DART
RANK #86/145
PHOTO BMR2
BOOK 2y book
INJ 12 inj
SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BMR2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Pacific Heating & Cooling averages 6.2 TCR (220% of the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS benchmark).

Pacific Heating & Cooling TCR series: 2019=5.9 · 2020=6.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Pacific Heating & Cooling falls in its industry

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #86 safest of 145 HVAC (heating, ventilation and employers in Washington.

Pacific Heating & Cooling (98 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Pacific Heating & Cooling has more employees than the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-condi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year	TCR	DART	Injuries	Illnesses	Fatalities
2020	6.4	6.4	6	0	0
2019	5.9	5.9	6	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · WA · Lakewood

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 93 employers in Lakewood, WA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	BMR2	DES MOINES, IA	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BURGESON'S HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING, INC	REDLANDS, CA	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kevin Cohen Plumbing, Inc.	EUGENE, OR	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Professional Air Systems, LLC	RURAL HALL, NC	6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Soli Organic Inc. - Marysville	MARYSVILLE	98 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tatoes LLC dba Del Christensen & Sons	MATTAWA	98 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MCC	MEAD	98 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Inland Power and Light Company	SPOKANE	98 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WESTERN STATE HOSPITAL	Lakewood	2,651 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Western	Lakewood	2,314 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2643-46060001-460601	Lakewood	729 FTE
CITY-NEAR	46060001-460601 ST. CLARE HOSPITAL	Lakewood	704 FTE
NAT-TCR	STC:SC420 - SC420-Nashville, TN	Nashville, TN	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	CBC:CB102 - CB102-South Holland,IL	South Holland, IL	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	LifePath- Sellersville	Sellersville, PA	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Paonia, Inc.	Colorado Springs, CO	6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Premio Foods Inc.	Brooksville, FL	98 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hendricks Commercial Properties, LLC	Beloit, WI	98 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Louisa Health and Rehabilitiation Center	Louisa, VA	98 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Access Securepak	Saint Charles, MO	98 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.