Distribution line, sewer and water, construction · West Virginia

C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc.

Huntington, WV · ~233 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc. runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Distribution line, sewer and water, construction workplace, earning a grade A.

C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc.: 0.9 TCR = 31% of Distribution line, sewer and water, construction BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc. safety composite

C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc.: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Huntington, WV AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Bunting and Murray C…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~233 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bunting and Murray Construction Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc. averages 0.9 TCR (31% of the Distribution line, sewer and water, construction BLS benchmark).

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

C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=1.4 · 2019=1 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=1.1 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 2.8

Where C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc. falls in its industry

1,614 Distribution line, sewer and w establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Distribution line, sewer and w employers in West Virginia.

C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc. (233 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc.
C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc. (233 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

C. J. Hughes Construction Co., Inc. has more employees than the Distribution line, sewer and water, cons 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 0.8 0.8 3 0 0
2022 1.1 0.4 3 0 0
2021 0.7 0.7 2 0 0
2020 0.9 0.9 2 0 0
2019 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2018 1.4 0.5 3 0 0
2017 1.1 0.5 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · WV · Huntington

1,614 Distribution line, sewer and water, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 130 employers in Huntington, 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 Bunting and Murray Construction Corp 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR National EWP 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Worth Civil Constructors, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alex E Paris Contracting Co., Inc. 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE MARTINSBURG WV BOOK - BAKER RD 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Covestro New Martinsville 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. Fletcher & Co - Huntington Plant 233 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highland Clarksburg Hospital 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Mary's Medical Center 3,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cabell Huntington Hospital Inc 2,876 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cabell Huntington Hospital 1 2,848 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cabell Huntington Hospital Employees 2,823 FTE
NAT-TCR Starbucks Manufacturing Georgia Soluble Coffee Plant 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR GA 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Norfolk - NFK 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Federal Steel & Erection Co. 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE First Tennessee Human Resource Agency 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE OKC - Southwest Tube 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson Contractor Group, Inc 233 FTE
NAT-SIZE IKEA #027 Round Rock 233 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.