Natural gas pipeline construction · South Carolina

Ertel Construction - Charleston

North Charleston, SC · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ertel Construction - Charleston runs at 317% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Natural gas pipeline construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Ertel Construction - Charleston: 8.9 TCR = 317% of Natural gas pipeline construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ertel Construction - Charleston safety composite

Ertel Construction - Charleston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Ertel Construction - Charleston: 6.3 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2019

Ertel Construction - Charleston's TCR rose 5.2 from 6.3 in 2018 to 11.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237120 · North Charleston, SC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 317% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK P1
  • PHOTO Michels Pipeline Inc…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Michels Pipeline Inc-WA-Kirkland (0.7 TCR gap)

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Ertel Construction - Charleston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ertel Construction - Charleston averages 8.9 TCR (317% of the Natural gas pipeline construction BLS benchmark).

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

Ertel Construction - Charleston TCR series: 2018=6.3 · 2019=11.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Ertel Construction - Charleston falls in its industry

809 Natural gas pipeline construct establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ertel Construction - Charleston (70 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ertel Construction - Charleston
Ertel Construction - Charleston (70 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7

Ertel Construction - Charleston has fewer employees than the Natural gas pipeline construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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
2019 11.5 5.7 7 1 0
2018 6.3 1.6 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237120 · SC · North Charleston

809 Natural gas pipeline construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 256 employers in North Charleston, SC · 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 Michels Pipeline Inc-WA-Kirkland 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tulsa Branch 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Petroleum Marketers Equipment Co., LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Kentucky Maintenance 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Titan Fruit and Vegetable 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville Resource Center PNG 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE COLUMBIA GAS CREW QUARTERS (Cayce Gas) 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE 862-SC-Upstate 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston County 2,601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palmetto Goodwill Services 1,105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trident Medical Center 1,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR SRC Charleston ISS Division 815 FTE
NAT-TCR 2253-H4857 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR North Branch Construction, Inc. Home Office 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Country Villa Hacienda Healthcare Center 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tti, Inc - 02 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trelleborg Boots North America 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE DLM Trucking, LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fulton Plant FEP 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Northbrook - Public Works 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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