Heating and cooling duct work installation · Ohio

Sheet Metal

Columbus, OH · ~94 workers · 2 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

Sheet Metal runs at 67% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Heating and cooling duct work installation workplace, earning a grade B.

Sheet Metal: 1.9 TCR = 67% of Heating and cooling duct work installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheet Metal safety composite

Sheet Metal scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sheet Metal: 1.4 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Sheet Metal's TCR rose 1.0 from 1.4 in 2018 to 2.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Columbus, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 67% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #94/300
  • PHOTO Total Fire Protectio…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Total Fire Protection of Michigan, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheet Metal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheet Metal averages 1.9 TCR (67% of the Heating and cooling duct work installation BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Sheet Metal TCR series: 2018=1.4 · 2019=2.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Sheet Metal falls in its industry

5,793 Heating and cooling duct work establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #94 safest of 300 Heating and cooling duct work employers in Ohio.

Sheet Metal (94 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheet Metal
Sheet Metal (94 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Sheet Metal has more employees than the Heating and cooling duct work installati 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
2019 2.4 0.0 2 0 0
2018 1.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · OH · Columbus

5,793 Heating and cooling duct work installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 Total Fire Protection of Michigan, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Fire Suppression - Kansas City 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR EES Facility Services 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rapid Fire Protection INC 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Alois Alzheimer Center 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCHO Main Campus (CRC & Admin) 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE HQSC and Operations** 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Abbewood Retirement Center 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR NC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AMEREN ILLINOIS - Effingham 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Regal Beloit America, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brooks Brothers Group - LIC 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Foodliner-Dubuque 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE GLC Golden Rule 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waletich Corporation 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valero Port Arthur TX - BSL 94 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: 2019, 2018. 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.