Plumbing contractors · California

LJ Kruse Co

Berkeley, CA · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LJ Kruse Co runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Plumbing contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

LJ Kruse Co: 3.1 TCR = 111% of Plumbing contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LJ Kruse Co safety composite

LJ Kruse Co scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

LJ Kruse Co: 0.0 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2024

LJ Kruse Co's TCR rose 9.3 from 0.0 in 2022 to 9.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Berkeley, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 111% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #243/594
  • PHOTO Oregon Cascade Plumb…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oregon Cascade Plumbing & Heating, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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LJ Kruse Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LJ Kruse Co averages 3.1 TCR (111% of the Plumbing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

LJ Kruse Co TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 2.8

Where LJ Kruse Co falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing contractors establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #243 safest of 594 Plumbing contractors employers in California.

LJ Kruse Co (59 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate LJ Kruse Co
LJ Kruse Co (59 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

LJ Kruse Co has fewer employees than the Plumbing contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 9.3 2.3 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Berkeley

5,793 Plumbing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 120 employers in Berkeley, 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 Oregon Cascade Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ryan Plumbing, Heating, A/C, & FP LLC 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HSES - UGI - Reading 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sys-Kool LLC 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE DFFF-Salinas 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE LOMA 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.R. AG SOLUTIONS, INC. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE F&J FERNANDEZ CONTRACTING 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Berkeley 22,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH) 1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley, CA 1,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Baxter Manufacturing LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Accessible Products Company 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Express & Suites 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Browe Construction Company 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Soi - Mfg 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Regional Specialty Hospital 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Whitley Ag Center 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dohn Construction, Inc. 59 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. 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.