Sewer construction · Tennessee

Hurst Excavating

Knoxville, TN · ~34 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hurst Excavating runs at 368% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sewer construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Hurst Excavating: 10.3 TCR = 368% of Sewer construction BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hurst Excavating safety composite

Hurst Excavating scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.8

2016→2024

Hurst Excavating injury rate improved

Hurst Excavating's TCR fell 6.8 from 9.3 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 32.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.3 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=32.4 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=17.5 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Knoxville, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 368% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #36/36
  • PHOTO Advanced Water Well …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Water Well Technologies, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hurst Excavating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hurst Excavating averages 10.3 TCR (368% of the Sewer construction BLS benchmark).

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

Hurst Excavating TCR series: 2016=9.3 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=32.4 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=17.5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Hurst Excavating falls in its industry

1,614 Sewer construction establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 36 Sewer construction employers in Tennessee.

Hurst Excavating (34 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hurst Excavating
Hurst Excavating (34 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Hurst Excavating has fewer employees than the Sewer construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2023 17.5 0.0 6 0 0
2022 4.3 0.0 0 1 0
2021 8.2 0.0 2 0 0
2020 32.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.5 0.0 0 1 0
2018 9.5 0.0 1 2 0
2017 5.5 5.5 2 0 0
2016 9.3 3.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · TN · Knoxville

1,614 Sewer construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 747 employers in Knoxville, TN · 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 Advanced Water Well Technologies, LLC 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Mt. Vernon IL Public Works, Public Utilites, Parks, SSA, Quality Of Life 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shank Constructors 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR STAATS CONSTRUCTION, INC. 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Obion County Hatchery 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE UCEMC Cookeville 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE RKA Construction, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGM-Tennessee 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cellular Sales Services Group LLC 6,387 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health System, Inc 5,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Functional Pathways of TN LLC 2,258 FTE
CITY-NEAR HES Facilities Services K-12 2,157 FTE
NAT-TCR Hopkins Sand & Gravel, Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR American House - Coconut Point 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Southpointe Healthcare and Rehab 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Inactive Ships Philadelphia 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE SPIR STAR, Ltd 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE De Jager Dairy North #2 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tenant Improvement Specialists, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 146 West Wichita 34 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.