Highway construction · North Carolina

Buchanan and Sons Inc

Whittier, NC · ~25 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buchanan and Sons Inc runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Buchanan and Sons Inc: 1.7 TCR = 60% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buchanan and Sons Inc safety composite

Buchanan and Sons Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Buchanan and Sons Inc held a steady TCR band

Buchanan and Sons Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Whittier, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #33/120
  • PHOTO Rochester Sand & Gra…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rochester Sand & Gravel (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buchanan and Sons Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buchanan and Sons Inc averages 1.7 TCR (60% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

Buchanan and Sons Inc TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Buchanan and Sons Inc falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 120 Highway construction employers in North Carolina.

Buchanan and Sons Inc (25 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Buchanan and Sons Inc
Buchanan and Sons Inc (25 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Buchanan and Sons Inc has fewer employees than the Highway construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 8.6 8.6 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · NC · Whittier

4,078 Highway construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 5 employers in Whittier, NC · 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 Rochester Sand & Gravel 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lindy Paving 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kokosing Construction Company, Inc 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foundation Steel, LLC 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fair View Nursery, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE John William Carter III 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill of Berry's 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Andrew Tyson Farms 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR 01587 - STORE # 1587 WHITTIER 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1587 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherokee Operations Center 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR 23851 STORE 23851 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Buckeye Exterminating Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pearl 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln High School 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rae Security 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE CDM Conctracting, INC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Durex Coverings - PA 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Marys Health Center 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodbine School 25 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.