Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors · California

Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc.

Phelan, CA · ~36 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc. runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc.: 7.5 TCR = 267% of Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc. safety composite

Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc.: 3.3 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.7 from 3.3 in 2017 to 7.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Phelan, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 267% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #162/184
  • PHOTO Mark Lee Excavating …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mark Lee Excavating Shop/Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc. averages 7.5 TCR (267% of the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc. TCR series: 2017=3.3 · 2021=12.1 · 2022=7 · BLS 2.8

Where Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or la establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #162 safest of 184 Excavating, earthmoving, or la employers in California.

Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc. (36 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc.
Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc. (36 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Joshua Grading & Excavating, Inc. has fewer employees than the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearin median and a higher 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
2022 7.0 0.0 3 1 0
2021 12.1 0.0 0 3 0
2017 3.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · CA · Phelan

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 3 employers in Phelan, 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 Mark Lee Excavating Shop/Office 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Don Morin, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Broderick General Engineering Inc 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8350_18995 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR MWC Group, Inc. 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR CR&R Incorporated Phelan 27 FTE
NAT-TCR 4598-Rtc Orlando 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stockyards Facility 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 0783 - Eden Prairie Mn Whse 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 487556-Ric-Huffhines Park Sta 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Port Orchard Sand & Gravel Co Inc 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville Bedding Arizona 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE DTNA Charlotte - I2M. (SMRU0651) 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zoetis Indianapolis. (SMRU80131) 36 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: 2022, 2021, 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.