Air-conditioning equipment (except room units) merchant wholesalers · Texas

Stella Link

Houston, TX · ~79 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stella Link runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Air-conditioning equipment (except room units) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Stella Link: 0.7 TCR = 31% of Air-conditioning equipment (except room units) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stella Link safety composite

Stella Link scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Stella Link: 0.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Stella Link's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423730 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/34
  • PHOTO Residential HVAC and…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Residential HVAC and Supply : WHSE-Bridgeton, MO-USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stella Link in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stella Link averages 0.7 TCR (31% of the Air-conditioning equipment (except room units) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Stella Link TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Stella Link falls in its industry

290 Air-conditioning equipment (ex establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 34 Air-conditioning equipment (ex employers in Texas.

Stella Link (79 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Stella Link
Stella Link (79 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Stella Link has more employees than the Air-conditioning equipment (except room median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2020 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423730 · TX · Houston

290 Air-conditioning equipment (except room units) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 Residential HVAC and Supply : WHSE-Bridgeton, MO-USA 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MARS NY 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robert Madden Industries - Austin South 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri-State Distributors 71 Royston 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE HOOPER TRUCKING LTD 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fervo Energy 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lipan Service center 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Office 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Pfizer Biotech Andover 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Avera eCare 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Reed Contracting Services, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cunningham/Maddox Station 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rochester Manor 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE WSP Jackson 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE EDCO Disposal - Armour 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stoffel Equipment Company, Inc. 79 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: 2020, 2019, 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.