Excavation contractors · Delaware

Nichols

Newark, DE · ~60 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nichols runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Nichols: 2.5 TCR = 89% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nichols safety composite

Nichols scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−3.8

2018→2021

Nichols injury rate improved

Nichols's TCR fell 3.8 from 5.1 in 2018 to 1.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.1 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Newark, DE AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/8
  • PHOTO Heavy Equipment Rent…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heavy Equipment Rental, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nichols in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nichols averages 2.5 TCR (89% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Nichols TCR series: 2018=5.1 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Nichols falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Delaware alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 8 Excavation contractors employers in Delaware.

Nichols (60 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Nichols
Nichols (60 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Nichols has more employees than the Excavation contractors median and a higher 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
2021 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2018 5.1 3.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · DE · Newark

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,487 rated employers in Delaware with headcount on file · 221 employers in Newark, DE · 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 Heavy Equipment Rental, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR W.L. French Excavating Corp 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ICS MATERIALS, INC. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AED - Youngstown 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Delaware City Refining 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Assurance Media 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE IKO Production Inc. 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE DE-NEWAR01-Newark - DE 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR 50 Christiana 11,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newark Site 1,462 FTE
CITY-NEAR DE00000042 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - NEWARK 1,028 FTE
CITY-NEAR DuPont Electronic Materials 653 FTE
NAT-TCR Store #050 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pasadena Regional Office 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR OmniSource LLC - Toledo NF 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ruan Transport Corporation T-065 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trulite Glass and Aluminum Solutions - W-31 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kamps Grand Rapids 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE AWC Belvidere 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Citrus Heights 60 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.