Road construction · Pennsylvania

Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc.

Pittsburgh, PA · ~68 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc. runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc.: 4.0 TCR = 142% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc. safety composite

Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2016→2019

Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc. injury rate improved

Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.8 from 1.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.8 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=7.9 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Pittsburgh, PA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 142% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #112/196
  • PHOTO John Schnittker (MI)
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: John Schnittker (MI) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc. averages 4.0 TCR (142% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=7.9 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #112 safest of 196 Road construction employers in Pennsylvania.

Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc. (68 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc.
Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc. (68 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Peter J. Caruso & Sons, Inc. has fewer employees than the Road construction median and a higher 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.9 4.0 4 0 0
2017 6.2 2.1 3 0 0
2016 1.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · PA · Pittsburgh

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 1,170 employers in Pittsburgh, PA · 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 John Schnittker (MI) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TAYLORSPORT 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highway 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tobey Construction 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Regester Mushrooms inc 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monterey Mushroom Inc 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Pride Hatchery 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR United States Steel COrporation 15,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh- Oakland 14,135 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (PUH) 13,900 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Pittsburgh-Oakland 13,208 FTE
NAT-TCR TNI - Lebanon, MO 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Flow Polymers Coit Road Plant 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Herkimer County Chapter, NYSARC, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cartier Location 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Owatonna, MN 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midland Tx 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Certified Power Inc. 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Bag - Ogden 68 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.