Sewer cleaning and rodding services · New York

Duke's Root Control, Inc.

Syracuse, NY · ~62 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Duke's Root Control, Inc. runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sewer cleaning and rodding services workplace, earning a grade F.

Duke's Root Control, Inc.: 5.7 TCR = 218% of Sewer cleaning and rodding services BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Duke's Root Control, Inc. safety composite

Duke's Root Control, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Duke's Root Control, Inc.: 2.0 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.59× in 2020

Duke's Root Control, Inc.'s TCR rose 8.0 from 2.0 in 2016 to 10.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562998 · Syracuse, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.7 · 218% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Fraser Trans (AKA Do…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fraser Trans (AKA Dover Grease Traps) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Duke's Root Control, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Duke's Root Control, Inc. averages 5.7 TCR (218% of the Sewer cleaning and rodding services BLS benchmark).

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

Duke's Root Control, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=2.1 · 2018=8.5 · 2020=10.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Duke's Root Control, Inc. falls in its industry

121 Sewer cleaning and rodding ser establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Sewer cleaning and rodding ser employers in New York.

Duke's Root Control, Inc. (62 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Duke's Root Control, Inc.
Duke's Root Control, Inc. (62 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Duke's Root Control, Inc. has more employees than the Sewer cleaning and rodding services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2020 10.1 9.0 10 0 0
2018 8.5 4.2 4 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2016 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562998 · NY · Syracuse

121 Sewer cleaning and rodding services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 436 employers in Syracuse, NY · 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 Fraser Trans (AKA Dover Grease Traps) 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR K&D Industrial Services 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR JANUARY SERVICES, LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Puyallup Trans (AKA Flo Hawks) 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Care New York LLC.-Rochester 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Utilities - Massena 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kings County Waterproofing Corp 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE E-J Energy 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Health 4,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 3,970 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center 3,720 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center-SJH-NY 2,803 FTE
NAT-TCR Herr Foods Inc. 20 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bristol Group 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Insource Performance Solutions at Lowes Statesville 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 130 Upton Street 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sweeney Lumber 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mac Fasteners, Inc 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilmiington Terminal 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comm Ed 62 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: 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.