Construction management, water and sewer line · North Carolina

Gaines and company Inc

Knightdale, NC · ~109 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gaines and company Inc runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Construction management, water and sewer line workplace, earning a grade D.

Gaines and company Inc: 4.4 TCR = 158% of Construction management, water and sewer line BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gaines and company Inc safety composite

Gaines and company Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−4.4

2017→2024

Gaines and company Inc injury rate improved

Gaines and company Inc's TCR fell 4.4 from 5.1 in 2017 to 0.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.1 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Knightdale, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 158% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #31/55
  • PHOTO Terracon Constructor…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Terracon Constructors, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gaines and company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gaines and company Inc averages 4.4 TCR (158% of the Construction management, water and sewer line BLS benchmark).

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

Gaines and company Inc TCR series: 2017=5.1 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Gaines and company Inc falls in its industry

1,614 Construction management, water establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 55 Construction management, water employers in North Carolina.

Gaines and company Inc (109 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gaines and company Inc
Gaines and company Inc (109 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Gaines and company Inc has more employees than the Construction management, water and sewer 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
2024 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2023 3.8 1.9 6 0 0
2022 2.9 2.3 5 0 0
2021 4.5 1.9 7 0 0
2020 4.5 1.8 5 0 0
2019 11.3 8.1 7 0 0
2018 2.4 1.2 2 0 0
2017 5.1 1.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · NC · Knightdale

1,614 Construction management, water and sewer line employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 35 employers in Knightdale, NC · 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 Terracon Constructors, Inc 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR A-1 Excavating LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ricciardi Bros Inc 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VanCon Inc 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Primoris T&D Services - Charlotte 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Graham 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mid Atlantic Infrastructure Systems Inc 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealand South 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schneider Electric Knightdale 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCX Holding, LLC, wholly owned subsid of Hubbell Industrial Controls, Knightdale, NC 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2111 - Knightdale 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1816 173 FTE
NAT-TCR Terracon Constructors, Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Palmdale Plant #39 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodland 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR JML Care Center, Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spooner's Woodworks Inc. 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Traylor Health and Rehab 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Ave 109 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.