Drilled pier (i.e., for building foundations) contractors · California

Bay Area Underpinning

Fairfield, CA · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bay Area Underpinning runs at 389% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drilled pier (i.e., for building foundations) contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Bay Area Underpinning: 10.9 TCR = 389% of Drilled pier (i.e., for building foundations) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bay Area Underpinning safety composite

Bay Area Underpinning scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−10.1

2021→2022

Bay Area Underpinning injury rate improved

Bay Area Underpinning's TCR fell 10.1 from 15.9 in 2021 to 5.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=15.9 · 2022=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Fairfield, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 389% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #177/184
  • PHOTO Ron Meyer & Associat…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ron Meyer & Associates Excavating, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bay Area Underpinning in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bay Area Underpinning averages 10.9 TCR (389% of the Drilled pier (i.e., for building foundations) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Bay Area Underpinning TCR series: 2021=15.9 · 2022=5.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Bay Area Underpinning falls in its industry

1,750 Drilled pier (i.e., for buildi establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #177 safest of 184 Drilled pier (i.e., for buildi employers in California.

Bay Area Underpinning (110 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bay Area Underpinning
Bay Area Underpinning (110 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Bay Area Underpinning has more employees than the Drilled pier (i.e., for building foundat median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2022 5.8 2.5 7 0 0
2021 15.9 7.4 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · CA · Fairfield

1,750 Drilled pier (i.e., for building foundations) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 172 employers in Fairfield, 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 Ron Meyer & Associates Excavating, Inc. 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SDL 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMPCO North, Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wood Brothers Trucking LLC 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Queen Victoria Farms, LP 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Ridge Farms 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE GH Dairy - California 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Braga Ranch, Inc. Soledad 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 108 2,817 FTE
CITY-NEAR NorthBay Healthcare Medical Center 1,086 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jelly Belly Candy Company 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Universal Propulsion Company (Fairfield CA) 460 FTE
NAT-TCR Phinney Industrial Roofing Service and Maintenance, LLC 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Anthony's Nursing & Rehab CTR. LLC 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Department 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Luke's Hospital- Anderson 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #685 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #646 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE 14 - Woodland 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE 274 - Andorra 110 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: 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.