Bridge construction · Delaware

Delaware Memorial Bridge

New Castle, DE · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Delaware Memorial Bridge runs at 337% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bridge construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Delaware Memorial Bridge: 9.4 TCR = 337% of Bridge construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Delaware Memorial Bridge safety composite

Delaware Memorial Bridge scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Delaware Memorial Bridge: 5.3 → 13.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.43× in 2018

Delaware Memorial Bridge's TCR rose 8.2 from 5.3 in 2017 to 13.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · New Castle, DE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 337% of ind

  • DART 13.5 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Public Works & Equip…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Works & Equipment Maintenance (0.0 TCR gap)

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Delaware Memorial Bridge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Delaware Memorial Bridge averages 9.4 TCR (337% of the Bridge construction BLS benchmark).

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

Delaware Memorial Bridge TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=13.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Delaware Memorial Bridge falls in its industry

4,078 Bridge construction establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Delaware alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Bridge construction employers in Delaware.

Delaware Memorial Bridge (27 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 Delaware Memorial Bridge
Delaware Memorial Bridge (27 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Delaware Memorial Bridge has fewer employees than the Bridge construction median and a higher 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 13.5 13.5 1 0 0
2017 5.3 5.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · DE · New Castle

4,078 Bridge construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 192 employers in New Castle, DE · 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 Public Works & Equipment Maintenance 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR D1 St Charles Yard 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parisi Construction LLC 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverview Paving, Inc. 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Millsboro Grow Out 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE DPL-Harrington 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE 32807 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cherokee Nation Mechanical, LLC 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEL0000070 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - OUTLET 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ILG1 864 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - PHL1 646 FTE
CITY-NEAR DEL0000050 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - WAREHOU 633 FTE
NAT-TCR CTS - 440 Chase River 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Carbo Tech, Inc. 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Splitrock Resort 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Busboom&Rauh 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Colorado Concrete Company 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale New Bern 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stinar 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suites on Paseo 27 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.