HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors · Massachusetts

Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood

Westwood, MA · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood: 5.0 TCR = 179% of HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood safety composite

Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood held a steady TCR band

Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood's TCR held near 0.1 from 5.2 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.2 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 179% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #97/140
  • PHOTO Production Plus Plum…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Production Plus Plumbing, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood averages 5.0 TCR (179% of the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=5 · BLS 2.8

Where Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood falls in its industry

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #97 safest of 140 HVAC (heating, ventilation and employers in Massachusetts.

Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood (24 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood
Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood (24 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Suburban Service Corporation of Norwood has fewer employees than the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-condi 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
2019 5.0 0.0 0 1 0
2018 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · MA · Westwood

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 27 employers in Westwood, 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 Production Plus Plumbing, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vaughn's Plumbing & Heating Co. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Speer Mechanical 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaiser Air Conditioning & Sheet Metal 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Savage Farms Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Salem Harbor Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Springfield Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATTLEBORO-MA04 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Security 1,623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eversource - Westwood 871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Westwood 057 489 FTE
CITY-NEAR Computacenter 390 FTE
NAT-TCR Mayfield - Braselton - McDonough 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heatron-3000 Wilson 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanstonehealth & Rehab 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR ROC 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Keuka College Wolf'S Den (Rochester)** 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Honda Material Mgmt Ctr (Mmc) Din (Marysville** 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sarah Lawrence Vending** 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lehigh Lansdale - Hagerstown - DTI 24 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, 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.