Railroad construction · California

Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project

San Mateo, CA · ~245 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Railroad construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project: 2.1 TCR = 77% of Railroad construction BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project safety composite

Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project held a steady TCR band

Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.3 in 2021 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.3 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · San Mateo, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 77% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #45/92
  • PHOTO BMCR (SANDTWOBR)
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~245 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BMCR (SANDTWOBR) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project averages 2.1 TCR (77% of the Railroad construction BLS benchmark).

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

Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project TCR series: 2021=1.3 · 2022=4 · 2023=2 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project falls in its industry

932 Railroad construction establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 92 Railroad construction employers in California.

Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project (245 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project
Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project (245 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Balfour Beatty - Caltrain Project has more employees than the Railroad construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 1.3 1.3 3 0 0
2023 2.0 1.4 7 0 0
2022 4.0 3.2 10 0 0
2021 1.3 1.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · CA · San Mateo

932 Railroad construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 94 employers in San Mateo, CA · 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 BMCR (SANDTWOBR) 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR R. J. Corman Railroad Services, Emergency, LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Engineering 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triton Marine Construction Corp. HAWAII 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE CA-San Joaquin Valley S/C 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE SACRAMENTO RMC 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE COMPTON BASE - 15 (DH) 245 FTE
STATE-SIZE E&J Gallo Winery 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 132 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR SIE - San Mateo 1,552 FTE
CITY-NEAR IXL Learning Inc. 888 FTE
CITY-NEAR IXL Learning Inc. - San Mateo 491 FTE
NAT-TCR Lake Charles Memorial Hospital - EVS 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR P.E./Returns Carhartt, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Silgan Plastics MONROE 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Laborie Orangeburg 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE PAM Specialty Hospital of Denver 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital Kyle 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edgerton, KS - 30700 W 191st Street 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE 259 - Swartz Creek MI 245 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.