Mechanical contractors · Tennessee

W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc.

Memphis, TN · ~69 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mechanical contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc.: 4.4 TCR = 158% of Mechanical contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. safety composite

W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc.: 2.3 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.0 from 2.3 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 158% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #80/117
  • PHOTO George D. Boyer & So…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: George D. Boyer & Sons, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. averages 4.4 TCR (158% of the Mechanical contractors BLS benchmark).

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

W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2018=7.5 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 2.8

Where W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Mechanical contractors establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #80 safest of 117 Mechanical contractors employers in Tennessee.

W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. (69 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc.
W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. (69 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

W. A. Soefker & Son, Inc. has more employees than the Mechanical 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 4.3 2.1 4 0 0
2023 3.6 1.2 3 0 0
2018 7.5 3.0 5 0 0
2016 2.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · TN · Memphis

5,793 Mechanical contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 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 George D. Boyer & Sons, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freedom Heating and Cooling 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mielke Medina 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coolsys SAN 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Volunteer Energy Cooperative - Decatur 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landmark Construction and Emergency Sericves 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Spear Ironworks LLC 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Region 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR A-Del Construction Company, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Coldspring Branch 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowling Green 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Thermal Transfer Products 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE WCTX Associates LLC d/b/a Hilton Houston Westchase 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Eddy Pond West 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE OSF Aviation 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canton 10236 69 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, 2018, 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.