Excavation contractors · Pennsylvania

H.L.Wiker Inc.

Lancaster, PA · ~68 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

H.L.Wiker Inc. runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

H.L.Wiker Inc.: 6.7 TCR = 238% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

H.L.Wiker Inc. safety composite

H.L.Wiker Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

H.L.Wiker Inc.: 2.7 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 15.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2021

H.L.Wiker Inc.'s TCR rose 5.8 from 2.7 in 2016 to 8.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 15.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Lancaster, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 238% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #103/115
  • PHOTO GUINN CONSTRUCTION
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GUINN CONSTRUCTION (0.0 TCR gap)

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H.L.Wiker Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows H.L.Wiker Inc. averages 6.7 TCR (238% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

H.L.Wiker Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=15.3 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=8.5 · BLS 2.8

Where H.L.Wiker Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #103 safest of 115 Excavation contractors employers in Pennsylvania.

H.L.Wiker Inc. (68 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 H.L.Wiker Inc.
H.L.Wiker Inc. (68 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

H.L.Wiker Inc. has more employees than the Excavation contractors median and a higher 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 8.5 5.1 5 0 0
2020 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2019 6.3 6.3 4 0 0
2018 15.3 8.5 9 0 0
2017 5.4 2.7 4 0 0
2016 2.7 2.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · PA · Lancaster

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 450 employers in Lancaster, PA · 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 GUINN CONSTRUCTION 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CIPPCO INC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR C. Abbonizio Contractors Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BTS Equipment Unlimited Inc 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Regester Mushrooms inc 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monterey Mushroom Inc 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Pride Hatchery 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Health, LGH Hospital 7,424 FTE
CITY-NEAR LGHealth 7,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Hospital 6,528 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lancaster General Medical Group 1,436 FTE
NAT-TCR CRH Richmond 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR American Village 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Azura Memory Care of Oak Creek 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Roses 547 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hi'ipaka 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Food #4751 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Food #4753 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Breaux Machine Works LP 68 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, 2016. 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.