Heat pump installation · Florida

Southern Plumbing

Ocala, FL · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Plumbing runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Heat pump installation workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Plumbing: 4.8 TCR = 170% of Heat pump installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Plumbing safety composite

Southern Plumbing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Southern Plumbing held a steady TCR band

Southern Plumbing's TCR held near 0.2 from 4.7 in 2017 to 4.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.7 · 2018=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Ocala, FL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 170% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #251/425
  • PHOTO Acme Mechanical Cont…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Acme Mechanical Contractors of Virginia, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Plumbing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Plumbing averages 4.8 TCR (170% of the Heat pump installation BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Plumbing TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=4.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Southern Plumbing falls in its industry

5,793 Heat pump installation establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #251 safest of 425 Heat pump installation employers in Florida.

Southern Plumbing (21 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Southern Plumbing
Southern Plumbing (21 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Southern Plumbing has fewer employees than the Heat pump installation 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 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2017 4.7 4.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · FL · Ocala

5,793 Heat pump installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 391 employers in Ocala, FL · 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 Acme Mechanical Contractors of Virginia, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5 Star Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Florida 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AFS Austin 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE SMR Farms 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woerner Farms LLC - CLA 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parkesdale Farms Packing & Cooling Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELOGIA POWER LLC 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Health Ocala 2,476 FTE
CITY-NEAR HCA Florida Ocala Hospital 2,064 FTE
CITY-NEAR AdventHealth Ocala 1,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocala Regional Medical Center 1,342 FTE
NAT-TCR HNL - Airport United Airlines Offices 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PS-TYS-KNOXVILLE-PS 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ADI 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Miller Container - Rock Island 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Wellington 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0932 - Laredo Tx (Dry) Depot 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Auburn- Branch 1 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5248 Palatine Bridge 21 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.