Excavation contractors · Indiana

C & E Excavating, Inc.

Elkhart, IN · ~51 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C & E Excavating, Inc. runs at 310% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

C & E Excavating, Inc.: 8.7 TCR = 310% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C & E Excavating, Inc. safety composite

C & E Excavating, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−7.3

2016→2024

C & E Excavating, Inc. injury rate improved

C & E Excavating, Inc.'s TCR fell 7.3 from 10.2 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 20.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.2 · 2019=20.8 · 2020=5.2 · 2022=10.9 · 2023=2.0 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Elkhart, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 310% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #39/39
  • PHOTO CLEAN AIR FLOORING R…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CLEAN AIR FLOORING REMOVAL, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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C & E Excavating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C & E Excavating, Inc. averages 8.7 TCR (310% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

C & E Excavating, Inc. TCR series: 2016=10.2 · 2019=20.8 · 2020=5.2 · 2022=10.9 · 2023=2 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 2.8

Where C & E Excavating, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 39 Excavation contractors employers in Indiana.

C & E Excavating, Inc. (51 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 C & E Excavating, Inc.
C & E Excavating, Inc. (51 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

C & E Excavating, Inc. has more employees than the Excavation contractors 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
2024 2.9 1.4 2 0 0
2023 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 10.9 2.2 5 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2019 20.8 7.8 6 2 0
2016 10.2 2.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · IN · Elkhart

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 401 employers in Elkhart, IN · 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 CLEAN AIR FLOORING REMOVAL, LLC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bollig and Sons Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston Excavating 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.L. Contracting, Inc. 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE AgBest, LLC 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Columbus Operations Center 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dyer Construction Company, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3R Products & Services 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest River, Inc. 12,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR THOR MOTOR COACH 2,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart Community Schools 1,892 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRV LLC 1,692 FTE
NAT-TCR Mass. Bay Brewing Company, Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 502 Spr1000 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hammonasset Construction LLC. 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR JL Haley 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lionberger Construction 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE High School 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phillips Steel Company 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rathbone Precision Metals, Inc. 51 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, 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.