Commercial building construction general contractors · Nebraska

Cheever Construction

Lincoln, NE · ~40 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cheever Construction runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Cheever Construction: 6.8 TCR = 233% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cheever Construction safety composite

Cheever Construction scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−10.3

2017→2024

Cheever Construction injury rate improved

Cheever Construction's TCR fell 10.3 from 13.1 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=13.1 · 2018=13.4 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=2.4 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Lincoln, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 233% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #46/52
  • PHOTO Snodgrass & Sons Con…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Snodgrass & Sons Construction Co, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cheever Construction in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cheever Construction averages 6.8 TCR (233% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Cheever Construction TCR series: 2017=13.1 · 2018=13.4 · 2019=4.6 · 2020=2.4 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 2.9

Where Cheever Construction falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 52 Commercial building constructi employers in Nebraska.

Cheever Construction (40 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Cheever Construction
Cheever Construction (40 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Cheever Construction has fewer employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2023 5.7 0.0 2 0 0
2022 5.3 0.0 2 0 0
2020 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 4.6 0.0 2 0 0
2018 13.4 4.5 6 0 0
2017 13.1 2.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · NE · Lincoln

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 496 employers in Lincoln, NE · 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 Snodgrass & Sons Construction Co, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hi-Lume Corporation 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR H S WILLIAMS COMPANY INC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagan Office 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frenchman Valley Produce, Inc. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms, LLC Columbus, NE 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olson Farms 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE BIC Construction 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet Servicing LLC 2,850 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nelnet - Lincoln HQ 2,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bryan East Campus 2,358 FTE
CITY-NEAR FACTS Education Corporation 1,986 FTE
NAT-TCR St Matthews 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Raley's 421-Fair Oaks 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vanderwall Brothers 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Local Government 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Waff Contracting Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingwood 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Composite Approach 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stell Enterprises, Inc. 40 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.