Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground · Michigan

Kaltz Excavating

Pontiac, MI · ~113 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kaltz Excavating runs at 6% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade A.

Kaltz Excavating: 0.2 TCR = 6% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kaltz Excavating safety composite

Kaltz Excavating scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

Kaltz Excavating: 0.0 → 0.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 0.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Kaltz Excavating's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Pontiac, MI AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 6% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/54
  • PHOTO Sky Climber Renewables
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sky Climber Renewables (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kaltz Excavating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kaltz Excavating averages 0.2 TCR (6% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

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

Kaltz Excavating TCR series: 2018=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Kaltz Excavating falls in its industry

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 54 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Michigan.

Kaltz Excavating (113 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kaltz Excavating
Kaltz Excavating (113 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Kaltz Excavating has more employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · MI · Pontiac

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 95 employers in Pontiac, MI · 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 Sky Climber Renewables 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raymondville 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Byers Engineering Company 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR On-Shore Wind - NAM - Projects 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schaendorf Custom Farming 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE A&H Plant NRI 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Municipal 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE FiberClass Insulation #210 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - DET3 2,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR Powertrain Headquaters 2,839 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital SJMHS MI 2,521 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST JOSEPH MERCY OAKLAND 1,290 FTE
NAT-TCR 3D Systems - Waterford 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Charleston Office 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cornerstone - Indianapolis 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Land O'Lakes - Arden Hills Corporate Offices 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE McCarter Bus Garage 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kirk Williams Company 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Russell Landscape, LLC- Atlanta 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire/EMS Department 113 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, 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.