Dredging (e.g., canal, channel, ditch, waterway) · Texas

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock

Houston, TX · ~1,125 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Dredging (e.g., canal, channel, ditch, waterway) workplace, earning a grade A.

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock: 0.8 TCR = 30% of Dredging (e.g., canal, channel, ditch, waterway) BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock safety composite

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock held a steady TCR band

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.8 in 2021 to 0.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.8 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Houston, TX AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #77/114
  • PHOTO Trak Time
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~1,125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trak Time (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Dredge & Dock in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Dredge & Dock averages 0.8 TCR (30% of the Dredging (e.g., canal, channel, ditch, waterway) BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock TCR series: 2021=0.8 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Great Lakes Dredge & Dock falls in its industry

932 Dredging (e.g., canal, channel establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #77 safest of 114 Dredging (e.g., canal, channel employers in Texas.

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (1,125 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (1,125 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has more employees than the Dredging (e.g., canal, channel, ditch, w median and a lower 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
2024 0.8 0.6 13 0 0
2023 0.8 0.4 13 0 0
2022 0.9 0.8 17 0 0
2021 0.8 0.5 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · TX · Houston

932 Dredging (e.g., canal, channel, ditch, waterway) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 5,116 employers in Houston, TX · 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 Trak Time 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ND PAPER OLDTOWN 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sasol Chemicals Houston TX 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR APTIM @ Flint Hills - Pine Bend 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Viceroy : APM 1,124 FTE
STATE-SIZE HOU-GROUND OPS 1,124 FTE
STATE-SIZE LOCATION 53031 1,122 FTE
STATE-SIZE 42200001-422002 ST JOSEPH REGIONAL HEALTH CENTER 1,128 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH IAH 11,560 FTE
CITY-NEAR IAH - Airport United Airlines Offices 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-IAH 9,442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist Hospital Texas Medical Center 8,873 FTE
NAT-TCR Kansas Ethanol, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Arizona Office 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Skelton's Fire Equipment, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR General Meter 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Finish Line Corporate Office 1,125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt. Holly 1,125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daimler Trucks North America LLC - TEC (Formerly Corp 1) 1,125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri-City Electric Co. 1,124 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. 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.