Locating underground utility lines prior to digging · Maine

MA/RI

Gardiner, ME · ~80 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MA/RI runs at 367% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Locating underground utility lines prior to digging workplace, earning a grade F.

MA/RI: 9.6 TCR = 367% of Locating underground utility lines prior to digging BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MA/RI safety composite

MA/RI scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

MA/RI: 9.0 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2017

MA/RI's TCR rose 1.1 from 9.0 in 2016 to 10.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561990 · Gardiner, ME ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 367% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK P6
  • PHOTO Chick Of All Trades,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chick Of All Trades, LLC dba COAT Flagging (0.1 TCR gap)

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MA/RI in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MA/RI averages 9.6 TCR (367% of the Locating underground utility lines prior to digging BLS benchmark).

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

MA/RI TCR series: 2016=9 · 2017=10.1 · BLS 2.6

Where MA/RI falls in its industry

208 Locating underground utility l establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
MA/RI (80 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate MA/RI
MA/RI (80 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

MA/RI has more employees than the Locating underground utility lines prior median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2017 10.1 5.5 11 0 0
2016 9.0 7.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561990 · ME · Gardiner

208 Locating underground utility lines prior to digging employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,397 rated employers in Maine with headcount on file · 23 employers in Gardiner, ME · 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 Chick Of All Trades, LLC dba COAT Flagging 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fenix Group Inc. 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Road Work Ahead Traffic Services 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northern Dame Construction, Inc. 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Knowles Industrial Services Corporation 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Production 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advance Auto Sales 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2408 ELLSWORTH 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maine Drilling and Blasting, INC 573 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maine Drilling & Blasting, Inc. 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR CM Gard. ME 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beverage Div. 284 FTE
NAT-TCR Tehama Tire Service Inc 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Faf Mco 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Home 2 Suites - Jacksonville NC 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 303 Gaithersburg, Md 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Excelsior Springs Nursing and Rehab LLC 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1730 LKQ/Keystone 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Communications Specialists, Inc. 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Spring 80 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: 2017, 2016. 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.