Water heater installation · California

Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc.

Valencia, CA · ~44 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc. runs at 349% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water heater installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc.: 9.8 TCR = 349% of Water heater installation BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc. safety composite

Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.7

2020→2023

Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc. injury rate improved

Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc.'s TCR fell 12.7 from 15.0 in 2020 to 2.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 15.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=15.0 · 2022=12.0 · 2023=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Valencia, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 349% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #505/594
  • PHOTO Pleune Construction …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pleune Construction Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc. averages 9.8 TCR (349% of the Water heater installation BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc. TCR series: 2020=15 · 2022=12 · 2023=2.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Water heater installation establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #505 safest of 594 Water heater installation employers in California.

Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc. (44 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc.
Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc. (44 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Payless Water Heaters & Plumbing, Inc. has fewer employees than the Water heater installation 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
2023 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 12.0 8.0 6 0 0
2020 15.0 7.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Valencia

5,793 Water heater installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 186 employers in Valencia, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Pleune Construction Division 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Geisler Brothers Company 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capital City Heating and Cooling LLC 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Mechanical Inc 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Firebaugh 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boutonnet Farms 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Coast Vineyards 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE FESTIVAL FARMS 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 62 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital 1,776 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boston Scientific Neuromodulation 1,455 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodward HRT Santa Clarita 726 FTE
NAT-TCR IMC Kirkland 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gregory Container 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside Presbyterian House Inc. 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Redmond Heights Senior Living 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ipsen - One Kendall Square, Cambridge MA 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHB 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waller 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forest Envelope 44 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: 2023, 2022, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.