Heating equipment, hot water (except hot water heaters), manufacturing · Rhode Island

Taco Cranston

Cranston, RI · ~393 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Taco Cranston runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Heating equipment, hot water (except hot water heaters), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Taco Cranston: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Heating equipment, hot water (except hot water heaters), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taco Cranston safety composite

Taco Cranston scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2016→2024

Taco Cranston injury rate improved

Taco Cranston's TCR fell 1.6 from 1.9 in 2016 to 0.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.3 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333414 · Cranston, RI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK P91
  • PHOTO Flame Engineering Inc
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~393 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flame Engineering Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Taco Cranston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Taco Cranston averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Heating equipment, hot water (except hot water heaters), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Taco Cranston TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=0.8 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.3 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=1.1 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Taco Cranston falls in its industry

117 Heating equipment, hot water ( establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Taco Cranston (393 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Taco Cranston
Taco Cranston (393 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Taco Cranston has more employees than the Heating equipment, hot water (except hot median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 3 0 0
2022 1.1 1.1 5 0 0
2021 0.9 0.9 4 0 0
2020 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.8 0.8 3 0 0
2018 1.5 1.0 6 0 0
2017 0.8 0.3 3 0 0
2016 1.9 1.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333414 · RI · Cranston

117 Heating equipment, hot water (except hot water heaters), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,610 rated employers in Rhode Island with headcount on file · 151 employers in Cranston, RI · 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 Flame Engineering Inc 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Durex Industries BLDG 339 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IHP AU 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sigma Thermal, Inc. 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2283 394 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tasca Lincoln Mercury Inc 391 FTE
STATE-SIZE HopeHealth Hospice & Palliative Care 397 FTE
STATE-SIZE WC Warwick 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thielsch Engineering HQ 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heritage Healthcare Services Inc. 347 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1873 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1873 336 FTE
NAT-TCR Bei - Fl 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Radcliff Location 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Troy 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Glen Raven Logistics. 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crossroads Store 393 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crescent Park Corporation C-1 393 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carillon Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 393 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cust-O-Fab Specialty Services 393 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.