Commercial building construction general contractors · Texas

Novel Builders, LLC

Richardson, TX · ~25 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Novel Builders, LLC runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Novel Builders, LLC: 0.9 TCR = 32% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Novel Builders, LLC safety composite

Novel Builders, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Novel Builders, LLC held a steady TCR band

Novel Builders, LLC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Richardson, TX AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 32% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #110/327
  • PHOTO Sperry & Associates,…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sperry & Associates, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Novel Builders, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Novel Builders, LLC averages 0.9 TCR (32% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Novel Builders, LLC TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.9

Where Novel Builders, LLC falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #110 safest of 327 Commercial building constructi employers in Texas.

Novel Builders, LLC (25 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Novel Builders, LLC
Novel Builders, LLC (25 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Novel Builders, LLC has fewer employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · TX · Richardson

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 220 employers in Richardson, TX · 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 Sperry & Associates, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5015096 - SFO Terminal 1C 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR W M Schlosser Company Inc 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Layton Construction Company, LLC 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village Farms of Monahans 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lubbock Feeders, LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Circle Three Feed Yard, Ltd 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP 501-508 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Safety-Kleen Systems Inc 2,858 FTE
CITY-NEAR Methodist Richardson Medical Center 1,932 FTE
CITY-NEAR RFAB 1,309 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2636-TEXAS.RICHARDSON 1,266 FTE
NAT-TCR Yusen Logistics (Americas) Inc - Miami 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Greenwich-General Government 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NGDS-AZ15 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Red River Ready Mix 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE GM Ag Services, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clean Harbors of Baltimore Inc 64BA 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE AltaVita Independent Living LLC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana Department of Child Services - Montgomery County 25 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. 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.