Anchored earth retention contractors · Illinois

Gale Construction Company

Joliet, IL · ~17 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gale Construction Company runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Anchored earth retention contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Gale Construction Company: 4.0 TCR = 145% of Anchored earth retention contractors BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gale Construction Company safety composite

Gale Construction Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Gale Construction Company held a steady TCR band

Gale Construction Company's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=15.3 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=9.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Joliet, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 145% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/23
  • PHOTO Railroad Constructor…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Railroad Constructors, INc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gale Construction Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gale Construction Company averages 4.0 TCR (145% of the Anchored earth retention contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Gale Construction Company TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=15.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Gale Construction Company falls in its industry

932 Anchored earth retention contr establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 23 Anchored earth retention contr employers in Illinois.

Gale Construction Company (17 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gale Construction Company
Gale Construction Company (17 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Gale Construction Company has fewer employees than the Anchored earth retention contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.0 9.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 15.3 15.3 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · IL · Joliet

932 Anchored earth retention contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 281 employers in Joliet, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Railroad Constructors, INc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Environmental Quality Resources, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Rail Service, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sea & Shore Contracting, Inc. 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Neoga 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plymouth 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility - NWRWRF - Village of Fox Lake 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Airoom Architect Holdings, LLC 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR County Of Will 2,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MDW2 2,361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MDW2 2,101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Joliet 2,089 FTE
NAT-TCR Rush Health Systems 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Day School For Autism 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dematic - Griffin 4.0 TCR

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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.