Construction management, water and sewer line · New York

Joseph L. Balkan, Inc.

Richmond Hill, NY · ~96 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

Joseph L. Balkan, Inc. runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Construction management, water and sewer line workplace, earning a grade D.

Joseph L. Balkan, Inc.: 4.2 TCR = 148% of Construction management, water and sewer line BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joseph L. Balkan, Inc. safety composite

Joseph L. Balkan, 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.9 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%).

Joseph L. Balkan, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Joseph L. Balkan, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 6.0 in 2018 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.0 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Richmond Hill, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 148% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #58/71
  • PHOTO J & P Construction C…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J & P Construction Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Joseph L. Balkan, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joseph L. Balkan, Inc. averages 4.2 TCR (148% of the Construction management, water and sewer line BLS benchmark).

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

Joseph L. Balkan, Inc. TCR series: 2018=6 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Joseph L. Balkan, Inc. falls in its industry

1,614 Construction management, water establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 71 Construction management, water employers in New York.

Joseph L. Balkan, Inc. (96 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Joseph L. Balkan, Inc.
Joseph L. Balkan, Inc. (96 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Joseph L. Balkan, Inc. has more employees than the Construction management, water and sewer 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 5.9 5.9 5 0 0
2023 5.7 2.3 2 3 0
2022 3.2 2.1 2 1 0
2021 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2020 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2019 4.1 4.1 4 0 0
2018 6.0 6.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · NY · Richmond Hill

1,614 Construction management, water and sewer line employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 18 employers in Richmond Hill, 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 J & P Construction Co., Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shenandoah General Construction, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moffat Contracting Services, LLC. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GUI Main Office 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE NYSEG- Binghamton ECC 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1865 Palmer Avenue - L&M Builders Group LLC 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE 511 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Technical Building Services 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR VIP Health Care Services - Queens 1,195 FTE
CITY-NEAR PINNACLE ELECTRIC 468 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agir Electrical dba Pinnacle Electrical 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR DAY-NIGHT PLUMBING, HEATING & COOLING CORP. 170 FTE
NAT-TCR Grove Hill Memorial Hospital 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Aquatic Resource Restoration Company 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR BMWG 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Edgerton Location 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE E.J. Wade Construction, LLC 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vx Logistics LLC 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olive Vista Behavioral Health Center 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCC Community Markets - Kirkland 96 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.