Construction management, water and sewer line · Pennsylvania

A. Merante Contracting

Pittsburgh, PA · ~53 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A. Merante Contracting runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Construction management, water and sewer line workplace, earning a grade B.

A. Merante Contracting: 1.5 TCR = 55% of Construction management, water and sewer line BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A. Merante Contracting safety composite

A. Merante Contracting scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.9

2016→2023

A. Merante Contracting injury rate improved

A. Merante Contracting's TCR fell 0.9 from 2.9 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Pittsburgh, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #16/54
  • PHOTO Pacific Coast Well D…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Coast Well Drilling, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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A. Merante Contracting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A. Merante Contracting averages 1.5 TCR (55% of the Construction management, water and sewer line BLS benchmark).

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

A. Merante Contracting TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=2 · 2022=0 · 2023=2 · BLS 2.8

Where A. Merante Contracting falls in its industry

1,614 Construction management, water establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 54 Construction management, water employers in Pennsylvania.

A. Merante Contracting (53 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate A. Merante Contracting
A. Merante Contracting (53 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

A. Merante Contracting has fewer employees than the Construction management, water and sewer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2018 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2016 2.9 2.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · PA · Pittsburgh

1,614 Construction management, water and sewer line employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,170 employers in Pittsburgh, PA · 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 Pacific Coast Well Drilling, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haegelin Construction Co. - Austin 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pinnacle Constructors Office 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Layne Christensen Company 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Appalachian Drillers, LLC 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUSSC Susquehanna Service Center 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 301-NiSource-Uniontown PA 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG PHL- RIO 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR United States Steel COrporation 15,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh- Oakland 14,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 13,900 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh-Oakland 13,208 FTE
NAT-TCR Commercial Services/Interstate 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Munoz Trucking 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Clark (Clark Construction, Clark Concrete,Clark Civil, Clark Foundations) 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chain Milwaukee 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vessel Technology 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE 653 - Woodward Corner Market 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gratts Primary Center 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain Empire Surgery Center 53 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.