Central air-conditioning equipment installation · Oregon

Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc.

Portland, OR · ~35 workers · 5 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

Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc. runs at 479% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Central air-conditioning equipment installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc.: 13.4 TCR = 479% of Central air-conditioning equipment installation BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc. safety composite

Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc.: 5.2 → 16.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 22.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2020

Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc.'s TCR rose 11.1 from 5.2 in 2016 to 16.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 22.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Portland, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.4 · 479% of ind

  • DART 13.0 DART
  • RANK #78/86
  • PHOTO Tri-Valley Plumbing …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

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

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Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc. averages 13.4 TCR (479% of the Central air-conditioning equipment installation BLS benchmark).

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

Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=22.8 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=16.3 · 2020=16.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Central air-conditioning equip establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #78 safest of 86 Central air-conditioning equip employers in Oregon.

Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc. (35 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 Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc.
Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Sunset Heating & Cooling, Inc. has fewer employees than the Central air-conditioning equipment insta 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
2020 16.3 13.0 5 0 0
2019 16.3 13.1 5 0 0
2018 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2017 22.8 16.3 7 0 0
2016 5.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · OR · Portland

5,793 Central air-conditioning equipment installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 1,728 employers in Portland, OR · 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 Suburban Sheet Metal, Inc. 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bell Bros. Plumbing, Heating and Air 13.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schanno-McClaskey Orchards, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ekstrom Nursery Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Rio Farms 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redmond Maint HQ 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR OHSU Main Campus 18,003 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR349 PROVIDENCE ST VINCENT MEDICAL CTR-PORTLA 4,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR OR346 PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CTR-PORTLAND 3,684 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2252-00000530 3,498 FTE
NAT-TCR Hospice In His Care 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Maple Grove 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZWND 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR OCY - Family Services 13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dominion Senior Living of Anderson 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arbor - Lake Villa Community Cons School Dist 41 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pleasanton, Texas 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE FSG-New Mexico (Artesia) 35 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, 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.