Plumbing and heating contractors · Indiana

Shambaugh & Son LP

Fort Wayne, IN · ~3,072 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shambaugh & Son LP runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

Shambaugh & Son LP: 1.9 TCR = 66% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shambaugh & Son LP safety composite

Shambaugh & Son LP scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

Shambaugh & Son LP held a steady TCR band

Shambaugh & Son LP's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.8 in 2019 to 1.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.8 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Fort Wayne, IN AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 66% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #39/130
  • PHOTO TCI Companies, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 228 inj
  • SIZE ~3,072 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TCI Companies, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shambaugh & Son LP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shambaugh & Son LP averages 1.9 TCR (66% 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

Shambaugh & Son LP TCR series: 2019=1.8 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=2 · 2023=1.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Shambaugh & Son LP falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 130 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Indiana.

Shambaugh & Son LP (3,072 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Shambaugh & Son LP
Shambaugh & Son LP (3,072 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Shambaugh & Son LP has more employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2023 1.9 1.4 67 0 0
2022 2.0 1.6 60 0 0
2021 1.7 0.9 50 0 0
2019 1.8 0.5 51 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IN · Fort Wayne

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 634 employers in Fort Wayne, IN · 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 TCI Companies, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.A. Comunale - Norton 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8549_19713 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AWS Mechanical II LLC 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Deaconess Midtown 3,068 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cook Incorporated Park 48 3,062 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lafayette Operations 3,025 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana Auto Plant 3,023 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Memorial Hospital 6,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview North Hospital 4,648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Corporate Office 3,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Hospital of Indiana 2,592 FTE
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods Corporate Office 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR S.A. Morman & Co. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pawtucket, RI 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR JR Peters, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pennsylvania Hospital 3,072 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flatiron Health, Inc 3,071 FTE
NAT-SIZE Englewood Hospital and Medical Center 3,071 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center 3,070 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, 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.