Commercial building construction · Washington

Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co.

Seattle, WA · ~285 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co. runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial building construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co.: 1.3 TCR = 45% of Commercial building construction BLS 2.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co. safety composite

Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co.: 0.5 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co.'s TCR rose 1.8 from 0.5 in 2019 to 2.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Seattle, WA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #22/127
  • PHOTO Hill & Wilkinson Con…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~285 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hill & Wilkinson Construction Group, Ltd. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co. averages 1.3 TCR (45% of the Commercial building construction BLS benchmark).

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

Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co. TCR series: 2019=0.5 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 2.9

Where Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co. falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 127 Commercial building constructi employers in Washington.

Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co. (285 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co.
Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co. (285 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Howard S. Wright, a Balfour Beatty Co. has more employees than the Commercial building construction 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
2024 2.3 0.7 7 0 0
2023 1.2 0.9 4 0 0
2019 0.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · WA · Seattle

4,692 Commercial building construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 1,279 employers in Seattle, WA · 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 Hill & Wilkinson Construction Group, Ltd. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas City Office 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Constructech, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Durazo Construction Corporation 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE JR Simplot Company, Moses Lake 285 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5628 285 FTE
STATE-SIZE 701-00122 285 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yakima Golding Farm-John I. Haas, Inc. 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The United States of America 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR Starz Entertainment 25,000 FTE
CITY-NEAR UW Medical Center - Montlake and NW 11,307 FTE
NAT-TCR Davenport 10424 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express Pittsburgh Airport 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Charleston Gas Operations 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Publishing Group Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE School District of Lodi 285 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hacienda Farm Services Inc 285 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fayette County Hospital 285 FTE
NAT-SIZE Youngquist Brothers, llc 285 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.