Excavation contractors · New Jersey

James Construction

Oakland, NJ · ~34 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

James Construction runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

James Construction: 1.4 TCR = 51% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James Construction safety composite

James Construction scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−2.7

2018→2024

James Construction injury rate improved

James Construction's TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.7 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Oakland, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/33
  • PHOTO Grady & Sons Excavat…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grady & Sons Excavation, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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James Construction in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows James Construction averages 1.4 TCR (51% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

James Construction TCR series: 2018=2.7 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where James Construction falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 33 Excavation contractors employers in New Jersey.

James Construction (34 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 James Construction
James Construction (34 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

James Construction has fewer employees than the Excavation contractors median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.2 0.0 2 0 0
2018 2.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · NJ · Oakland

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 19 employers in Oakland, NJ · 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 Grady & Sons Excavation, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lester Contracting, Inc 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zemba Bros., Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unified Construction Group, LLC 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE ISE America, Inc Co#3 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grace Construction Management Company, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE V.J. Scozzari and Sons, Inc. Hopewell 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR 40 Potash Rd 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR ShopRite of Long Hill Plaza 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakland operator LLC 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakland 97 FTE
NAT-TCR Corning 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR FUJIFILM Electronic Materials U.S.A., Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Electrico, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Zemba Bros., Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Galaxy 1 Marketing, Inc. - Bloomington 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transportation Department 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yamada America, Inc 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Longley Supply Company - Wilmington 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. 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.