Excavation contractors · Pennsylvania

Don E. Bower Inc.

Berwick, PA · ~70 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Don E. Bower Inc. runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Don E. Bower Inc.: 2.4 TCR = 84% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Don E. Bower Inc. safety composite

Don E. Bower Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2020→2024

Don E. Bower Inc. injury rate improved

Don E. Bower Inc.'s TCR fell 1.9 from 3.3 in 2020 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.3 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Berwick, PA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 84% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #46/115
  • PHOTO CHAMPION SITE PREP I…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CHAMPION SITE PREP INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Don E. Bower Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Don E. Bower Inc. averages 2.4 TCR (84% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Don E. Bower Inc. TCR series: 2020=3.3 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Don E. Bower Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #46 safest of 115 Excavation contractors employers in Pennsylvania.

Don E. Bower Inc. (70 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Don E. Bower Inc.
Don E. Bower Inc. (70 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Don E. Bower Inc. has more employees than the Excavation contractors median and a lower 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 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.1 4.1 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.1 1.6 2 0 0
2020 3.3 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · PA · Berwick

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 41 employers in Berwick, 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 CHAMPION SITE PREP INC. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Michels Drilled Foundations- Washington 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fischer Construction LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peterson Companies, Inc. 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grace Ind 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark Contractors, Inc. 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tutor Perini Building Corp. - Northeast 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weaver Companies, Inc. 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Susquehanna Nuclear 1,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR DC6 DC6 BERWICK PA 759 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wise Foods, Inc. - Berwick, PA 706 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-DC6 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Mercy Hospital Aurora 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR W3 Main 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Breakthru Beverage Illinois Belleville, LLC. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Powers of Mississippi- Bay St. Louis Office 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 20556 Swanzey 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE InfraSource - PSE Major Projects / MP 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE SAN-ITP 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reliance Hospice, Inc 70 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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