Backfilling, construction · Pennsylvania

Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc.

Dillsburg, PA · ~22 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc. runs at 367% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Backfilling, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc.: 10.3 TCR = 367% of Backfilling, construction BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc. safety composite

Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc.: 7.9 → 18.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2024

Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc.'s TCR rose 10.8 from 7.9 in 2017 to 18.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Dillsburg, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 367% of ind

  • DART 12.4 DART
  • RANK #112/115
  • PHOTO Thurgood Excavating,…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thurgood Excavating, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc. averages 10.3 TCR (367% of the Backfilling, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc. TCR series: 2017=7.9 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=4 · 2020=4.7 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=13.3 · 2023=17.7 · 2024=18.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Backfilling, construction establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #112 safest of 115 Backfilling, construction employers in Pennsylvania.

Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc.
Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc. (22 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc. has fewer employees than the Backfilling, construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 18.7 12.4 3 0 0
2023 17.7 11.8 3 0 0
2022 13.3 4.4 3 0 0
2021 8.3 0.0 2 0 0
2020 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2019 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 7.6 3.8 2 0 0
2017 7.9 7.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · PA · Dillsburg

1,750 Backfilling, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 25 employers in Dillsburg, PA · 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 Thurgood Excavating, Inc 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Rate Excavate Inc 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Speedy Concrete Cutting Fort Lauderdale 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mytty Excavating, Inc 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dawson's Orchards 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kuhn Orchards, LLC 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Giorgi Mushroom Farm 3 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Hope 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dillsburg 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR GIANT FOOD STORES 6310 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR 106310 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lobar Associates, Inc. 186 FTE
NAT-TCR Crescent City Marine 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR McDaniel and Son Plumbing, Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Skyline 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR John Paterson School 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wright Construction Co Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Builder'S Bloc Management Co. Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE DB11 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE SANDSTROM Products Company 22 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, 2021, 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.