Natural gas pipeline construction · Pennsylvania

Bluestar USA

Washington, PA · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bluestar USA runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Natural gas pipeline construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Bluestar USA: 1.5 TCR = 52% of Natural gas pipeline construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bluestar USA safety composite

Bluestar USA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bluestar USA: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2020

Bluestar USA's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237120 · Washington, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 52% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #26/45
  • PHOTO Allegheny Contracting
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Allegheny Contracting (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bluestar USA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bluestar USA averages 1.5 TCR (52% of the Natural gas pipeline construction BLS benchmark).

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

Bluestar USA TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Bluestar USA falls in its industry

809 Natural gas pipeline construct establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 45 Natural gas pipeline construct employers in Pennsylvania.

Bluestar USA (46 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate Bluestar USA
Bluestar USA (46 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7

Bluestar USA has fewer employees than the Natural gas pipeline construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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
2020 2.9 1.5 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237120 · PA · Washington

809 Natural gas pipeline construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 139 employers in Washington, PA · 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 Allegheny Contracting 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gray Supply Corp 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hagerman Location 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oregon Office 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Needham's Mushroom Farms, Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Pride Inc / Bell & Evans Hatchery 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Casing, Inc. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Elizabethtown ELI1 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Washington Hospital 1,630 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Meadows Racetrack and Casino 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hollywood Casino at The Meadows 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Songer Services Incorporated 621 FTE
NAT-TCR Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation -Raritan Center 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1138 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 815 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1371 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Div. 181 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cencal CNC, Inc 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Industries of Denver Golden 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champlin 46 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: 2020, 2019. 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.