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

Way Mechanical

Houston, TX · ~134 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Way Mechanical runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Way Mechanical: 0.4 TCR = 15% of Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Way Mechanical safety composite

Way Mechanical scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

Way Mechanical: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.95× in 2021

Way Mechanical's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #25/408
  • PHOTO Climate Engineers
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Climate Engineers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Way Mechanical in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Way Mechanical averages 0.4 TCR (15% 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 2026-09-26

Way Mechanical TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Way Mechanical falls in its industry

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-c establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 408 Heating, ventilation and air-c employers in Texas.

Way Mechanical (134 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 Way Mechanical
Way Mechanical (134 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Way Mechanical 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
2021 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · TX · Houston

5,793 Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 Climate Engineers 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boston, MA HVAC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crosby Brownlie INC 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charleston, SC HVAC 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Indicom Buildings Inc. 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAM Rehabilitation Hospital of Beaumont 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4054-ABS-0017-0016-03249 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFW Portables 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR US195: Roanoke 293 - SG 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Charleston, SC HVAC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Boston, MA HVAC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ruffalo Noel Levitz (Corporate Office) 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Glanbia Gooding Whey Plant 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Worley Warehousing, Inc. 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williams Construction 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southeast Directional Drilling 134 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, 2020. 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.