Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors · West Virginia

Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc.

Martinsburg, WV · ~45 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc. runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc.: 1.9 TCR = 70% of Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc. safety composite

Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc.: 2.8 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.31× in 2021

Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.7 from 2.8 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Martinsburg, WV AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 70% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Double D Gravel, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Double D Gravel, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc. averages 1.9 TCR (70% of the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc. TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or la establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Excavating, earthmoving, or la employers in West Virginia.

Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc. (45 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc.
Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc. (45 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Gantt's Excavating & Contracting, Inc. has fewer employees than the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearin 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
2021 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2017 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · WV · Martinsburg

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 84 employers in Martinsburg, WV · 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 Double D Gravel, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seaport Block L5 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodson Incorporated 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR J Pettiecord Inc 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE BECKLEY SERVICE CENTER 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE BBL Carlton 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Basement Authority of West Viirginia 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE CS Masonry LLC 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley Medical Center 1,843 FTE
CITY-NEAR 88043 1,719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Procter and Gamble - Tabler Station 785 FTE
CITY-NEAR MARTINSBURG WV - CAPERTON BLVD 632 FTE
NAT-TCR DFS Flooring Van Nuys 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Power Generation Services 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Caterpillar 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 112 Bakersfield, CA (RDC) 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anchor - Emigsville 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rouses Market #18 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dollar Tree (WC USX DMO) 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHS - Ground Ops 45 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: 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.