Curbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction · Minnesota

Chard Excavating

Belle Plaine, MN · ~117 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chard Excavating runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Curbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Chard Excavating: 2.7 TCR = 97% of Curbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chard Excavating safety composite

Chard Excavating scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Chard Excavating: 1.1 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2018

Chard Excavating's TCR rose 3.3 from 1.1 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Belle Plaine, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 97% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #32/107
  • PHOTO North AL Division
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North AL Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chard Excavating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chard Excavating averages 2.7 TCR (97% of the Curbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Chard Excavating TCR series: 2017=1.1 · 2018=4.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Chard Excavating falls in its industry

4,078 Curbs and street gutters, high establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 107 Curbs and street gutters, high employers in Minnesota.

Chard Excavating (117 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 Chard Excavating
Chard Excavating (117 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Chard Excavating has more employees than the Curbs and street gutters, highway, road 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
2018 4.3 3.3 4 0 0
2017 1.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MN · Belle Plaine

4,078 Curbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 32 employers in Belle Plaine, MN · 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 North AL Division 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR C.W. Roberts Contracting Wildwood Division 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freesen 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Billeter Marine 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE WLS NextEra Analytics St Paul 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gardner Builders 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laketown Electric Corporation 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE J Becher & Associates Inc 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Lutheran Home: Belle Plaine 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAMBRIA FABSHOP MINNESOTA LLC 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2042 Coborn's Belle Plaine 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chatfield Elementary 98 FTE
NAT-TCR Nelson Tree Service LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #81 (Yakima, WA) 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR University Health Shreveport 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Baker Petrolite - Sand Springs 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Centerline Utilities, Inc. 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Butler County Health Care Center 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Host Security Services 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Chillicothe 117 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.