Drywall contractors · New York

John C. Lowery, Inc.

Freeville, NY · ~84 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John C. Lowery, Inc. runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

John C. Lowery, Inc.: 4.2 TCR = 151% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John C. Lowery, Inc. safety composite

John C. Lowery, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2016→2024

John C. Lowery, Inc. injury rate improved

John C. Lowery, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.4 from 4.7 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Freeville, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 151% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #35/60
  • PHOTO Ohio
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ohio (0.0 TCR gap)

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John C. Lowery, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John C. Lowery, Inc. averages 4.2 TCR (151% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

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

John C. Lowery, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2018=0 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 2.8

Where John C. Lowery, Inc. falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 60 Drywall contractors employers in New York.

John C. Lowery, Inc. (84 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate John C. Lowery, Inc.
John C. Lowery, Inc. (84 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

John C. Lowery, Inc. has more employees than the Drywall contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 1.1 2 0 0
2023 4.2 4.2 3 0 0
2022 10.7 0.0 5 0 0
2021 4.4 0.0 4 0 0
2020 3.5 1.2 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.7 3.7 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · NY · Freeville

1,613 Drywall contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 6 employers in Freeville, NY · 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 Ohio 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAP Installed Building Products #350 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR OJ Insulation 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kinzler Construction Services-MSP 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Astoria Generating Station 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bonacio Construction, Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-NY-Elmsford-Ridgewood Drive 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keleman-Bauer Construction Inc. DBA Edbauer Construction 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dryden 990 FTE
CITY-NEAR Etna Lane 990 FTE
CITY-NEAR Incodema3D, LLC 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beck Farms LLC 32 FTE
NAT-TCR Mission Plumbing Heating and Air Conditioning 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Elliot Tool, Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ironrock Capital, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The W I Clark Company 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE GUAYNABO 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE 370-Houston 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Simms Painting Company Inc 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acme Machine & Welding Co LLC 84 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, 2018, 2016. 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.