Road construction · Florida

J.W. Cheatham, LLC

West Palm Beach, FL · ~120 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J.W. Cheatham, LLC runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade C.

J.W. Cheatham, LLC: 2.4 TCR = 85% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J.W. Cheatham, LLC safety composite

J.W. Cheatham, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−1.7

2020→2024

J.W. Cheatham, LLC injury rate improved

J.W. Cheatham, LLC's TCR fell 1.7 from 4.1 in 2020 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.1 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · West Palm Beach, FL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 85% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #70/174
  • PHOTO E.T. Simonds Constru…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: E.T. Simonds Construction Compay (0.0 TCR gap)

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J.W. Cheatham, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J.W. Cheatham, LLC averages 2.4 TCR (85% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

J.W. Cheatham, LLC TCR series: 2020=4.1 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 2.8

Where J.W. Cheatham, LLC falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Florida alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 174 Road construction employers in Florida.

J.W. Cheatham, LLC (120 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 J.W. Cheatham, LLC
J.W. Cheatham, LLC (120 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

J.W. Cheatham, LLC has more employees than the Road construction median and a lower 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 2.4 2.4 3 0 0
2023 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2022 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2021 2.9 2.9 4 0 0
2020 4.1 4.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · FL · West Palm Beach

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 26,569 rated employers in Florida with headcount on file · 446 employers in West Palm Beach, FL · 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.T. Simonds Construction Compay 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Enka 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VA SMA Construction 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summers Taylor Inc. 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5D TROPICAL INC. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tampa Rapid Response Team 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE South East District 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE SFI 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spar Business Services 7,516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Lab Services 3,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-947 1,719 FTE
CITY-NEAR 947 ST MARY S MEDICAL CENTER 1,699 FTE
NAT-TCR Reitter Stucco Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Supply Chain Rutland VT 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ascentron 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Dallas 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fairview Manor 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Court House Manor 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Houston 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Haven Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 120 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. 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.