Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors · California

KDW Construction, LLC.

Name: KDW Construction, LLC. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Livermore, CA · ~64 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.1
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

KDW Construction, LLC. runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

KDW Construction, LLC.: 2.1 TCR = 74% of Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KDW Construction, LLC. safety composite

KDW Construction, LLC. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% 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).

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2021→2023

KDW Construction, LLC. injury rate improved

KDW Construction, LLC.'s TCR fell 2.7 from 4.5 in 2021 to 1.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Livermore, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 74% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #62/184
PHOTO Mark Schaffer Excava…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mark Schaffer Excavating & Trucking, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows KDW Construction, LLC. averages 2.1 TCR (74% of the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS benchmark).

KDW Construction, LLC. TCR series: 2021=4.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.8 · BLS 2.8

Where KDW Construction, LLC. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or la establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 184 Excavating, earthmoving, or la employers in California.

KDW Construction, LLC. (64 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

KDW Construction, LLC. has more employees than the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearin median and a lower 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
2023	1.8	0.0	1
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2021	4.5	2.2	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · CA · Livermore

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 296 employers in Livermore, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Mark Schaffer Excavating & Trucking, Inc.	NORWALK, OH	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Vertical Earth Inc.	CUMMING, GA	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bullseye Construction, Inc.	PINEVILLE, NC	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Red Rock Demolition	SALT LAKE CITY, UT	2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Costa Farms, Inc.	SOLEDAD	64 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MDERA	MADERA	64 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AGS FARM LABOR CORPORATION	PORTERVILLE	64 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Arroyo Seco Vineyards, Inc	DELANO	64 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Retail Merchandising Solutions, LLC	Livermore	4,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR	California Department of Transportation Facility 577	Livermore	2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Gillig LLC	Livermore	940 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fat Chance Entertainment	Livermore	917 FTE
NAT-TCR	Watts Electric Company	Waverly, NE	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	New England Machinery	Bradenton, FL	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Saratoga Springs Branch	Saratoga Springs, NY	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Market Basket #62	Oxford, MA	2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Central Lake Armor Express, Inc.	Central Lake, MI	64 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Adrian Jules Ltd	Rochester, NY	64 FTE
NAT-SIZE	C.L. Linfoot Comapny	Grand Forks, ND	64 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Signode-Angleboard	Kankakee, IL	64 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.