Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors · Virginia

VCU

Richmond, VA · ~5,271 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VCU runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

VCU: 3.0 TCR = 108% of Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VCU safety composite

VCU scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

VCU: 1.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

VCU's TCR rose 4.0 from 1.0 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Richmond, VA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #88/152
  • PHOTO a.d. winston Service…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~5,271 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: a.d. winston Service, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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VCU in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VCU averages 3.0 TCR (108% of the Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

VCU TCR series: 2016=1 · 2020=5 · BLS 2.8

Where VCU falls in its industry

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-c establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 152 Heating, ventilation and air-c employers in Virginia.

VCU (5,271 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate VCU
VCU (5,271 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

VCU has more employees than the Heating, ventilation and air-conditionin 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
2020 5.0 0.0 4 0 0
2016 1.0 0.6 64 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · VA · Richmond

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 939 employers in Richmond, VA · 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 a.d. winston Service, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Excel Fire Protection 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Focus Fire Protection, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darnold Mechanical, LLC 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glen Allen, VA 5,179 FTE
STATE-SIZE IAD IAD 5,619 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sentara Norfolk General Hospital 4,863 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henrico County General Government 4,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU Health System 14,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Commonwealth University 11,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR CJW Medical Center 3,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR BSW St. Mary's Hospital 2,524 FTE
NAT-TCR MMP - 1577 Congress St 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Insource Performance Solutions at Hanes Brands Inc. Canterbury 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Durham Area Ymca - Ymca of the Triangle-Downtown Durham 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlantic City (ACY) 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6017-Corp Loc - USA United States - Ast 5,272 FTE
NAT-SIZE DEN - Airport United Airlines Offices 5,277 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buena Vida of San Antonio 5,262 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kettering Medical Center 5,259 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, 2016. 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.