Dirt moving for construction · West Virginia

Bear Contracting, LLC.

Clarksburg, WV · ~79 workers · 8 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

Bear Contracting, LLC. runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Dirt moving for construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Bear Contracting, LLC.: 0.4 TCR = 16% of Dirt moving for construction BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bear Contracting, LLC. safety composite

Bear Contracting, LLC. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−1.6

2017→2024

Bear Contracting, LLC. injury rate improved

Bear Contracting, LLC.'s TCR fell 1.6 from 1.6 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.6 · 2018=1.0 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Clarksburg, WV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/11
  • PHOTO Kelchner Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kelchner Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bear Contracting, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bear Contracting, LLC. averages 0.4 TCR (16% of the Dirt moving for construction BLS benchmark).

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

Bear Contracting, LLC. TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=1 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Bear Contracting, LLC. falls in its industry

1,750 Dirt moving for construction establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 11 Dirt moving for construction employers in West Virginia.

Bear Contracting, LLC. (79 employees, TCR 0.4) 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Bear Contracting, LLC.
Bear Contracting, LLC. (79 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Bear Contracting, LLC. has more employees than the Dirt moving for construction median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2017 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · WV · Clarksburg

1,750 Dirt moving for construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 59 employers in Clarksburg, WV · 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 Kelchner Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Services Company 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelly Cortum Inc 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson Demolition Service, Inc 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mineral Wells 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE 029-00754 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hidden Valley Center 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Triple H Enterprises 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1544 382 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1544 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Applied Construction Solutions, INC 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Energy Transportation, LLC 285 FTE
NAT-TCR S08605 - SMaRT 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 1981 Marcus Avenue 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ag Data Global, LLC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Modern Building, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE The NOCO Company 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. James High School 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metro Hardwood Maple Grove 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Sharp Mary Birch Evs 79 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.