Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction · North Carolina

Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC.

Denver, NC · ~83 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC. runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC.: 2.9 TCR = 103% of Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC. safety composite

Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC.: 2.6 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC.'s TCR rose 0.5 from 2.6 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Denver, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 103% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #22/55
  • PHOTO McHugh Excavating & …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McHugh Excavating & Plumbing, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC. averages 2.9 TCR (103% of the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC. TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC. falls in its industry

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #22 safest of 55 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat employers in North Carolina.

Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC. (83 employees, TCR 2.9) 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 Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC.
Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC. (83 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Cardinal Civil Contracting Charlotte, LLC. has more employees than the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), const 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 3.1 2.1 3 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · NC · Denver

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 39 employers in Denver, 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 McHugh Excavating & Plumbing, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR C A Barrs 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR RMCI,Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson Construction 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE ROCKWELL FARMS INC 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gastonia Operations Center 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Greensboro 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raleigh-Durham Call Center 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4274 392 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4274 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636 LOWE S OF E. LINCOLN COUNTY NC 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Husky Rack and Wire 180 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilmington Ma Distribution Center 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Msgul - Gulfport 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Airways Corporation 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Big G Express Inc 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omega Engineering 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arc Industries 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Plastic Corporation 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mnbra - Brainerd 83 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.