Plumbing and heating contractors · Ohio

TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks

Columbus, OH · ~109 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks runs at 375% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks: 10.5 TCR = 375% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks safety composite

TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.54 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

TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks: 7.8 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2018

TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks's TCR rose 5.4 from 7.8 in 2017 to 13.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Columbus, OH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 375% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #294/300
  • PHOTO Interstate Heating C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Interstate Heating Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks averages 10.5 TCR (375% of the Plumbing and heating contractors BLS benchmark).

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

TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks TCR series: 2017=7.8 · 2018=13.2 · BLS 2.8

Where TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #294 safest of 300 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Ohio.

TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks (109 employees, TCR 10.5) 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 TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks
TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks (109 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

TFH-EB Inc. dba The Waterworks has more employees than the Plumbing and heating contractors 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
2018 13.2 7.5 13 1 0
2017 7.8 3.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · OH · Columbus

5,793 Plumbing and heating contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,500 employers in Columbus, OH · 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 Interstate Heating Co., Inc. 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR O'Donnell Landscapes Inc 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vredevoogd Heating and Cooling 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brenner Corporation 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE GEM Industrial Inc - Ardagh/Project Bluewave 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Don Wartko Construction, Inc. 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE All-Temp Refrigeration Inc 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mane Inc. Woodlawn Production 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital 13,367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nationwide Children's Hospital Main Campus 10,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Methodist Hospital 9,759 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CMH1 5,057 FTE
NAT-TCR 19 - Theisen's - Coralville 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Fairport 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 495 ABC Supply Co,. Inc 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Denny's Store #377 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corrugated Supplies Company- Atlanta, LLC. 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azz Psi 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norbord Jefferson 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blachford Investments Inc. 109 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.