Railroad construction · California

J A Placek Construction Company, Inc.

Santa Fe Springs, CA · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J A Placek Construction Company, Inc. runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Railroad construction workplace, earning a grade D.

J A Placek Construction Company, Inc.: 4.4 TCR = 156% of Railroad construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J A Placek Construction Company, Inc. safety composite

J A Placek Construction Company, 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.25 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%).

J A Placek Construction Company, Inc. held a steady TCR band

J A Placek Construction Company, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 4.5 in 2022 to 4.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.5 · 2023=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Santa Fe Springs, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 156% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #73/92
  • PHOTO HME Construction, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HME Construction, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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J A Placek Construction Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J A Placek Construction Company, Inc. averages 4.4 TCR (156% of the Railroad construction BLS benchmark).

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

J A Placek Construction Company, Inc. TCR series: 2022=4.5 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 2.8

Where J A Placek Construction Company, Inc. falls in its industry

932 Railroad construction establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #73 safest of 92 Railroad construction employers in California.

J A Placek Construction Company, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 J A Placek Construction Company, Inc.
J A Placek Construction Company, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

J A Placek Construction Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Railroad construction median and a higher 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
2023 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2022 4.5 4.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · CA · Santa Fe Springs

932 Railroad construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 310 employers in Santa Fe Springs, 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 HME Construction, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MID-AMERICA GOLF AND LANDSCAPE, INC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri-State Industrial Contractors, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR EQR 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE HAULING & TRAILER SHOP 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seasholtz Co., LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redwood Valley Vineyards 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Central Coast Vineyards 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 423 3,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSI Electrical Contractors, Inc. 1,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSI 1,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vans Distribution Center - SFS 757 FTE
NAT-TCR Police 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale North Glendale 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR W.O. Blackstone & Co., Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR D. C. Taylor Co Chicago Illinois 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE TMM USA Inc 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dekko El Paso 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4 Wayland 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central MN Mental Health Center - Buffalo 26 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: 2023, 2022. 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.