Construction management, residential remodeling · Washington

Better Builders

Seattle, WA · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Better Builders runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction management, residential remodeling workplace, earning a grade F.

Better Builders: 9.0 TCR = 236% of Construction management, residential remodeling BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Better Builders safety composite

Better Builders scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.4

2020→2023

Better Builders injury rate improved

Better Builders's TCR fell 0.4 from 9.2 in 2020 to 8.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=9.2 · 2023=8.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236118 · Seattle, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 236% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #15/24
  • PHOTO Colorado Living, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Colorado Living, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Better Builders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Better Builders averages 9.0 TCR (236% of the Construction management, residential remodeling BLS benchmark).

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

Better Builders TCR series: 2020=9.2 · 2023=8.7 · BLS 3.8

Where Better Builders falls in its industry

698 Construction management, resid establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 24 Construction management, resid employers in Washington.

Better Builders (18 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Better Builders
Better Builders (18 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Better Builders has fewer employees than the Construction management, residential rem median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 8.7 8.7 2 0 0
2020 9.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236118 · WA · Seattle

698 Construction management, residential remodeling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, WA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Colorado Living, LLC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mad City Windows and Baths, LLC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ASR Construction Inc 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Uniplex Construction LLC 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Denboer Dairy 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE ScoCon LLS 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acc-U-Set Construction, Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.J. Takisaki, Inc. 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The United States of America 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starz Entertainment 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW 11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wipaire - Westgate 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Maricopa 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dogwood Adult Residential Services 9.0 TCR

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, 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.