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

United Mechanical - San Jose

San Jose, CA · ~387 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

United Mechanical - San Jose runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

United Mechanical - San Jose: 2.5 TCR = 90% of HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Mechanical - San Jose safety composite

United Mechanical - San Jose scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

United Mechanical - San Jose: 2.2 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2021

United Mechanical - San Jose's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.2 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · San Jose, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 90% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #195/594
  • PHOTO Mining Construction …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~387 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mining Construction Services, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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United Mechanical - San Jose in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows United Mechanical - San Jose averages 2.5 TCR (90% 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

United Mechanical - San Jose TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2021=2.9 · BLS 2.8

Where United Mechanical - San Jose falls in its industry

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #195 safest of 594 HVAC (heating, ventilation and employers in California.

United Mechanical - San Jose (387 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate United Mechanical - San Jose
United Mechanical - San Jose (387 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

United Mechanical - San Jose has more employees than the HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-condi median and a lower 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
2021 2.9 1.4 10 0 0
2019 2.2 1.5 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · San Jose

5,793 HVAC (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,102 employers in San Jose, CA · 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 Mining Construction Services, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Geisel Heating and Air Conditioning 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bud Griffin Customer Support, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Connelly Mechanical, Inc. 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eagle Labor Contracting, Inc 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Valley Harvest, Inc. 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE Century Park East - 01 387 FTE
STATE-SIZE F.E. Weymouth Filtration Plant 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-CALIFORNIA.SAN JOSE 11,308 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, Valley Medical Center (Hospital & Clinics) 7,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rosendin - Main 6,964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (SCVMC & Clinics) 6,576 FTE
NAT-TCR MP Espree LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen Lifestyles Management - Solivita 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PCA 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The High Line Hotel LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE US Foods Chicago 387 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allegro MicroSystems Manchester, NH 387 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burke Marketing Corporation 387 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hill Haven 387 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: 2021, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.