Locating underground utility lines prior to digging · Maine

ME/NH/VT

Gardiner, ME · ~73 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ME/NH/VT runs at 290% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Locating underground utility lines prior to digging workplace, earning a grade F.

ME/NH/VT: 7.5 TCR = 290% of Locating underground utility lines prior to digging BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ME/NH/VT safety composite

ME/NH/VT scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

ME/NH/VT: 5.5 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2017

ME/NH/VT's TCR rose 4.0 from 5.5 in 2016 to 9.5 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.95× 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 7.5 · 290% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK P12
  • PHOTO CAD Cut - Middlesex
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CAD Cut - Middlesex (0.0 TCR gap)

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ME/NH/VT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ME/NH/VT averages 7.5 TCR (290% 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

ME/NH/VT TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=9.5 · BLS 2.6

Where ME/NH/VT falls in its industry

208 Locating underground utility l establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
ME/NH/VT (73 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 ME/NH/VT
ME/NH/VT (73 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

ME/NH/VT 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 9.5 7.2 8 0 0
2016 5.5 4.4 5 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 CAD Cut - Middlesex 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charlotte Douglas International Airport 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR S&N Locate Services Clayton Office 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utilisource St. Joseph 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE St Laurent & Son Inc 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prescottmetal 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Portland BROSCO 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hillandale Farms Conn. LLC 73 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 Herd Enterprises Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR C2100 - C-2 Eugene 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Concrete/DC Plant 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Morgan Olson Plant 1 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Country Meadows Nursing and Rehab LLC 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allstate Power Vac Inc. - Brooklyn Service Center 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Recovery Unplugged Austin LLC 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Powerline, LLC 73 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.