Central cooling equipment and piping installation · Massachusetts

Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc.

Woburn, MA · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc. runs at 353% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Central cooling equipment and piping installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc.: 9.9 TCR = 353% of Central cooling equipment and piping installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc. safety composite

Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., 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 9.88 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

−3.5

2016→2017

Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc. injury rate improved

Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc.'s TCR fell 3.5 from 11.7 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 11.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.7 · 2017=8.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Woburn, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 353% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #128/140
  • PHOTO Goldkamp Enterprises
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goldkamp Enterprises (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Massachusetts employers → · Look up another →

Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc. averages 9.9 TCR (353% of the Central cooling equipment and piping installation BLS benchmark).

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

Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc. TCR series: 2016=11.7 · 2017=8.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Central cooling equipment and establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #128 safest of 140 Central cooling equipment and employers in Massachusetts.

Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc. (33 employees, TCR 9.9) 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 Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc.
Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc. (33 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Refrigeration Engineering & Contracting Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Central cooling equipment and piping ins 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
2017 8.1 0.0 3 0 0
2016 11.7 11.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · MA · Woburn

5,793 Central cooling equipment and piping installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 187 employers in Woburn, MA · 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 Goldkamp Enterprises 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ideal Mechanical 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ovation Plumbing, Heating & Air Inc. 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DONOHUE COMMERCIAL SERVICE 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green City Growers 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Good Chemistry - Holliston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Boston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTH ADAMS-MA27 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Woburn_MA 1,364 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marshalls Woburn Merchants, Inc 1,044 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woburn Marshalls Distribution Center 1,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR GEI Consultants, Inc. 837 FTE
NAT-TCR 3051 S State St 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heatherwilde Assisted Living 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sherwood Foods- Walton KY 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Coca-Cola Bottling Works of Tullahoma, Inc. - Clarksville Distribution 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE HMA Contracting Corp. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peterson Home Health Care Services 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE GCT - Plainfield 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE GCT - Dayton 33 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.