Culverts, highway, road and street, construction · Washington

McDonald Excavating Inc

Washougal, WA · ~50 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McDonald Excavating Inc runs at 47% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Culverts, highway, road and street, construction workplace, earning a grade A.

McDonald Excavating Inc: 1.3 TCR = 47% of Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McDonald Excavating Inc safety composite

McDonald Excavating Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

McDonald Excavating Inc: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

McDonald Excavating Inc's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Washougal, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 47% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/81
  • PHOTO Fossett Paving Co., …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fossett Paving Co., LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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McDonald Excavating Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McDonald Excavating Inc averages 1.3 TCR (47% of the Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS benchmark).

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

McDonald Excavating Inc TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=4.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 2.8

Where McDonald Excavating Inc falls in its industry

4,078 Culverts, highway, road and st establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 81 Culverts, highway, road and st employers in Washington.

McDonald Excavating Inc (50 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate McDonald Excavating Inc
McDonald Excavating Inc (50 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

McDonald Excavating Inc has fewer employees than the Culverts, highway, road and street, cons median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.3 4.3 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · WA · Washougal

4,078 Culverts, highway, road and street, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 20 employers in Washougal, WA · 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 Fossett Paving Co., LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR F & B Contractors, Ltd. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paragon Paving, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Asphalt Plants 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hyer Farms 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Potato Northwest 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bronze Star Inc 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&L Farm Pasco - Burbank 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pendleton Woolen Mill, Washougal Mill 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6400-SWY-0019-0019-01687 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0019-0019-01687 FAC-01687-WASHOUGAL-WA 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 144 FTE
NAT-TCR IAD-FFM 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Hospital Kingfisher 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Zimmerman Machine Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunlight Batteries USA 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Apple Ford of Lynchburg INC 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Francis Health - FNS 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Capital Regional Medical Center - FNS 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Palmettos of Parklane, LLC 50 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.