Commercial building construction general contractors · California

Heffler Contracting Group

El Cajon, CA · ~128 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heffler Contracting Group runs at 9% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Heffler Contracting Group: 0.3 TCR = 9% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heffler Contracting Group safety composite

Heffler Contracting Group scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Heffler Contracting Group held a steady TCR band

Heffler Contracting Group's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=1.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · El Cajon, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 9% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/486
  • PHOTO Quesenberry's Constr…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quesenberry's Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heffler Contracting Group in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heffler Contracting Group averages 0.3 TCR (9% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Heffler Contracting Group TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=1 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.9

Where Heffler Contracting Group falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 486 Commercial building constructi employers in California.

Heffler Contracting Group (128 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Heffler Contracting Group
Heffler Contracting Group (128 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Heffler Contracting Group has more employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · CA · El Cajon

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 236 employers in El Cajon, CA · 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 Quesenberry's Construction 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HSC Builders & Construction Managers 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beam Construction Company, Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conti Federal Services, LLC 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dick Peixoto Company 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE BATTH FARMS 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main operations location 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Services, LLC. 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN REGION : SDU 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 370 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics 1,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem Tronics 938 FTE
NAT-TCR Seattle, WA HVAC 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Headquarters 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Moog, Inc. - Northbrook 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Hills Corp. Headquarters (SD006) 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE US735: Linthicum Heights (Baltimore) 565 - SG 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pekin Manor 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE NWH Physician Specialty Hospital 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acument Global Technologies 2 128 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.