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

Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc.

Westwood, MA · ~27 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc. runs at 480% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc.: 13.4 TCR = 480% of HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc. safety composite

Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc.: 0.0 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 28.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2019

Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc.'s TCR rose 12.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 12.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 28.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.4 · 480% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #137/140
  • PHOTO Tri-Valley Plumbing …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tri-Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc. averages 13.4 TCR (480% 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 Sheet Metal, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=28.3 · 2019=12 · BLS 2.8

Where Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #137 safest of 140 HVAC (heating, ventilation and employers in Massachusetts.

Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 13.4) 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 Sheet Metal, Inc.
Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc. 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 12.0 8.0 3 0 0
2018 28.3 14.1 6 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 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 Tri-Valley Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR store 1 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Legacy Companies, Inc 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc. 13.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE High Profile - Dorchester 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAES Salem Harbor Station 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTH ANDOVER-METHUEN-MA30 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEWKSBURY-MA47 27 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 Main Location 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Max & Erma's Partridge Creek 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Elizabethtown - Elizabethtown Distribution 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Virginia Beach Beverages 13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dahn Construction Co LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lourdes University Board (Toledo)** 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE T.G. Lee - Tampa - DTI 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE DFNC - BIS - Bismarck - DTI 27 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.

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

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