Plumbing and heating contractors · Ohio

The Waterworks

Columbus, OH · ~114 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Waterworks runs at 318% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbing and heating contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

The Waterworks: 8.9 TCR = 318% of Plumbing and heating contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Waterworks safety composite

The Waterworks scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

The Waterworks: 10.6 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2024

The Waterworks's TCR rose 0.4 from 10.6 in 2022 to 11.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.99× 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 8.9 · 318% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #286/300
  • PHOTO Green Air, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~114 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Green Air, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Waterworks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Waterworks averages 8.9 TCR (318% 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

The Waterworks TCR series: 2022=10.6 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=11 · BLS 2.8

Where The Waterworks falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing and heating contracto establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #286 safest of 300 Plumbing and heating contracto employers in Ohio.

The Waterworks (114 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 The Waterworks
The Waterworks (114 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

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
2024 11.0 8.8 10 0 0
2023 5.1 1.3 4 0 0
2022 10.6 5.9 9 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 Green Air, Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manhattan Mechanical Contractors INC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR All Seasons Comfort Systems, LLC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coldmaster Temperature Control 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AKRON EASTWOOD SHOP 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE EASTERN RANDALL SHOP 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Independence Construction, LLC 114 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geiger Bros Mechanical 114 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 R.E. Sweeney Company, Inc 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison Health and Rehabilitation 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith's Machine & Grinding, Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Epic Logistics Transportation LLC 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Santa Barbara Family YMCA 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE King Kullen#17 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Concrete Pipe Inc. Bay City 114 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm and Fleet of Loves Park 114 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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