Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors · Kentucky

Preferred Industries, Inc.

Name: Preferred Industries, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Paducah, KY · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.8
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Preferred Industries, Inc. runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

Preferred Industries, Inc.: 1.8 TCR = 63% of Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Preferred Industries, Inc. safety composite

Preferred Industries, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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).

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Preferred Industries, Inc.: 0.0 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2018

Preferred Industries, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Paducah, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 63% of ind

DART 5.3 DART
RANK #22/79
PHOTO East Tennessee Sprin…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: East Tennessee Sprinkler Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Preferred Industries, Inc. averages 1.8 TCR (63% of the Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS benchmark).

Preferred Industries, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=5.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Preferred Industries, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-c establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 79 Heating, ventilation and air-c employers in Kentucky.

Preferred Industries, Inc. (25 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Preferred Industries, Inc. has fewer employees than the Heating, ventilation and air-conditionin median and a lower 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
2018	5.3	5.3	1
2017	0.0	0.0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · KY · Paducah

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 198 employers in Paducah, KY · 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	East Tennessee Sprinkler Company	JOHNSON CITY, TN	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	East Coast Plumbing & HVAC, Inc.	NEWARK, DE	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cooper Fire Protection Services	FARMINGTON, NM	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Brockway Mechanical Burlington	BURLINGTON, IA	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Murdock Farms Inc.	MURRAY	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lane's End Farm Oak Tree Division	LEXINGTON	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Henderson Municipal Gas	HENDERSON	25 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wescott Construction	LOUISVILLE	25 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ingram barge Company	Paducah	2,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Health Paducah Hospital	Paducah	1,605 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Health Paducah	Paducah	1,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Heatlh Paducah	Paducah	1,398 FTE
NAT-TCR	UG2 -516 - Poughkeepsie Galleria	Poughkeepsie, NY	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	East Coast Construction Services, LLC.	High Point, NC	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Clark Road DC - 819	Sarasota, FL	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Roadrunner Carriers, LLC	Cudahy, WI	1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	NeuroNexus	Ann Arbor, MI	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Eastside Cluster	Sun Prairie, WI	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	La Quinta Inn & Suites Roswell	Roswell, NM	25 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rockford Fairfield Inn & Suites	Rockford, IL	25 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, 2017, 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.