Plumbing and heating contractors · Michigan

Plumbing and Hvac

Farmington Hills, MI · ~115 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plumbing and Hvac runs at 370% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Plumbing and Hvac: 10.3 TCR = 370% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plumbing and Hvac safety composite

Plumbing and Hvac scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Plumbing and Hvac: 8.3 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2018

Plumbing and Hvac's TCR rose 4.0 from 8.3 in 2016 to 12.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Farmington Hills, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 370% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #137/153
  • PHOTO Varsity Plumbing and…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Varsity Plumbing and Heating, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plumbing and Hvac in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plumbing and Hvac averages 10.3 TCR (370% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Plumbing and Hvac TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2018=12.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Plumbing and Hvac falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #137 safest of 153 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Michigan.

Plumbing and Hvac (115 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 Plumbing and Hvac
Plumbing and Hvac (115 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Plumbing and Hvac has more employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors 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
2018 12.4 9.3 11 1 0
2016 8.3 1.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · MI · Farmington Hills

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 168 employers in Farmington Hills, MI · 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 Varsity Plumbing and Heating, Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JM Service Company, LLC 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waccamaw Heating & Cooling, LLC 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alliance Mechanical E 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ferris Coffee & Nut Co. 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pumford Construction 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Food Technologies 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2794_5337 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centria Healthcare LLC 3,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2250-517 2,497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beechview Elementary 1,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Facilities Management 1,317 FTE
NAT-TCR Florence Center (Alflo) 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dickson Package Center (Tndik) 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR iFLY Seattle 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Performance Milton's - 0705 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE ASR Group Cleveland 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0264 - Int. Doors-Ozark 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE UG2 - 595 - TD Garden (MA) 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE C/P Pacific Glacier 115 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: 2018, 2016. 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.