Gypsum board installation · Maryland

Avena Contracting, LLC

Baltimore, MD · ~169 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avena Contracting, LLC runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Gypsum board installation workplace, earning a grade A.

Avena Contracting, LLC: 0.6 TCR = 23% of Gypsum board installation BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avena Contracting, LLC safety composite

Avena Contracting, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Avena Contracting, LLC: 0.0 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2024

Avena Contracting, LLC's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Baltimore, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 23% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #1/31
  • PHOTO Miller Insulation Mi…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Miller Insulation Midland TX Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avena Contracting, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avena Contracting, LLC averages 0.6 TCR (23% of the Gypsum board installation BLS benchmark).

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

Avena Contracting, LLC TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=1 · BLS 2.8

Where Avena Contracting, LLC falls in its industry

1,613 Gypsum board installation establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 31 Gypsum board installation employers in Maryland.

Avena Contracting, LLC (169 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Avena Contracting, LLC
Avena Contracting, LLC (169 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Avena Contracting, LLC has more employees than the Gypsum board installation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2023 1.1 0.6 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.1 1.1 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · MD · Baltimore

1,613 Gypsum board installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 1,031 employers in Baltimore, MD · 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 Miller Insulation Midland TX Branch 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 706 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCI Albany Interior 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glenmark Construction Co., Inc. 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mitchell Beverage of Maryland 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-1982 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6650 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6922 MDV LANDOVER (MD) 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johns Hopkins Hospital 12,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Maryland Medical Center 7,980 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sinai Hospital of Baltimore 7,770 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGMS-T340 6,180 FTE
NAT-TCR State steelworks 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tactile Systems Technology Inc Corp 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GM Ag Services, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Elite Metal Decking of South Florida 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE M&D Wholesale Distributors, Inc. 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adena Lakeland 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lindar Corporation 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE JRE Logistics, LLC 169 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, 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.