Heating and ventilation system component (e.g., air registers, diffusers, filters, grilles, sound attenuators) installation · South Dakota

Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc.

Sioux Falls, SD · ~63 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc. runs at 445% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heating and ventilation system component (e.g., air registers, diffusers, filters, grilles, sound attenuators) installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc.: 12.5 TCR = 445% of Heating and ventilation system component (e.g., air registers, diffusers, filters, grilles, sound attenuators) installation BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc. safety composite

Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

TCR Δ

−15.5

2022→2024

Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc. injury rate improved

Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc.'s TCR fell 15.5 from 17.1 in 2022 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 18.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=17.1 · 2023=18.6 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Sioux Falls, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.5 · 445% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #16/16
  • PHOTO Air Conditioning Eng…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Air Conditioning Engineers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc. averages 12.5 TCR (445% of the Heating and ventilation system component (e.g., air registers, diffusers, filters, grilles, sound attenuators) installation BLS benchmark).

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

Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc. TCR series: 2022=17.1 · 2023=18.6 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Heating and ventilation system establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 16 Heating and ventilation system employers in South Dakota.

Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 12.5) 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 Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc.
Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc. (63 employees, TCR 12.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Waterbury Heating and Cooling, Inc. has more employees than the Heating and ventilation system component 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 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2023 18.6 11.2 10 0 0
2022 17.1 9.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · SD · Sioux Falls

5,793 Heating and ventilation system component (e.g., air registers, diffusers, filters, grilles, sound attenuators) installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 542 employers in Sioux Falls, SD · 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 Air Conditioning Engineers 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR True Air Mechanical 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bear's Plumbing 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kennco Plumbing, Inc. 12.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 116 RNDC-SIOUX FALLS 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE FAREWAY STORES, INC. 178 HARRISBURG 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE CC&F Retail, Inc (dba Coffee Cup #7) 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shopko Store #101 (Sioux Falls, SD (East)) 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,Sioux Falls-Medical Center Campus-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 6,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD,SIOUX FALLS - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 4,818 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods 3,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera McKennan Hospital 3,312 FTE
NAT-TCR Regional Ambulance Service, Inc 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PCC Community Markets - Redmond 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plymouth Volunteer Ambulance Corps 12.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Jim Hawk Truck Trailers of Davenport, Inc. 12.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE M-D Building Products Brooklet 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mondo Polymer Technologies, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denny's 9550 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution Management Inc. DC-FRESNO 63 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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