Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors · Texas

Lester Contracting, Inc

Port Lavaca, TX · ~94 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lester Contracting, Inc runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

Lester Contracting, Inc: 1.4 TCR = 51% of Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lester Contracting, Inc safety composite

Lester Contracting, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−0.9

2016→2024

Lester Contracting, Inc injury rate improved

Lester Contracting, Inc's TCR fell 0.9 from 1.9 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=1.0 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Port Lavaca, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #71/147
  • PHOTO Grady & Sons Excavat…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grady & Sons Excavation, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lester Contracting, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lester Contracting, Inc averages 1.4 TCR (51% 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

Lester Contracting, Inc TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=1 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Lester Contracting, Inc falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or la establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #71 safest of 147 Excavating, earthmoving, or la employers in Texas.

Lester Contracting, Inc (94 employees, TCR 1.4) 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 Lester Contracting, Inc
Lester Contracting, Inc (94 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Lester Contracting, Inc 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2020 4.4 4.4 5 0 0
2019 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2016 1.9 1.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · TX · Port Lavaca

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 24 employers in Port Lavaca, TX · 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 Grady & Sons Excavation, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zemba Bros., Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR James Construction 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unified Construction Group, LLC 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Dalhart 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corpus Christi Electric System Ops 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE 31090 - NEUAG 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Christensen Building Group, LLC 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1098 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1098 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ineos Nitriles USA LLC 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Green Lake, Tx 132 FTE
NAT-TCR Vs - Mo 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lennar Central Valley 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Transystems LLC - Renville Project 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Koppers Rock Hill 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schmidt Steel, Inc. 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sharpe Brothers 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0534 Rochester 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leading Technologies, Inc. 94 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, 2017, 2016. 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.