Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway · Montana

Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc.

Butte, MT · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway workplace, earning a grade D.

Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc.: 3.7 TCR = 131% of Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. safety composite

Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−5.4

2017→2019

Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. injury rate improved

Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.4 from 5.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.4 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Butte, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 131% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/25
  • PHOTO E & B PAVING LLC - K…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: E & B PAVING LLC - Kokomo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. averages 3.7 TCR (131% of the Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS benchmark).

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

Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.4 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Surfacing, highway, road, stre establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 25 Surfacing, highway, road, stre employers in Montana.

Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc.
Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. has fewer employees than the Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2017 5.4 5.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MT · Butte

4,078 Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 46 employers in Butte, MT · 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 E & B PAVING LLC - Kokomo 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Caton Construction Group, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CENTRAL BRIDGE COMPANY 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chilton Contractors 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beaverhead Ranch, MT 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE SCC Inspections 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koprivica Buidling 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cut Bank 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. James Healthcare 589 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1901 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1901 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Montana Precision Products 189 FTE
NAT-TCR Courtyard by Marriottt Key West 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR AC Hotel Boston Cambridge 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR NDX Twin Cities 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bayside Terrace 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE EnerSys Sumner 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Emera Maine Lamoine Division 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nature's Way Environmental Consultants & Contractors, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hesselbein Tire Southwest-Houston 21 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.