Water main and line construction · Ohio

Rack & Ballauer excavating inc.

Hamilton, OH · ~57 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rack & Ballauer excavating inc. runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Water main and line construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Rack & Ballauer excavating inc.: 1.6 TCR = 56% of Water main and line construction BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rack & Ballauer excavating inc. safety composite

Rack & Ballauer excavating inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Rack & Ballauer excavating inc. held a steady TCR band

Rack & Ballauer excavating inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Hamilton, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/51
  • PHOTO Cash Construction Co…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cash Construction Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rack & Ballauer excavating inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rack & Ballauer excavating inc. averages 1.6 TCR (56% of the Water main and line construction BLS benchmark).

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

Rack & Ballauer excavating inc. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Rack & Ballauer excavating inc. falls in its industry

1,614 Water main and line constructi establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 51 Water main and line constructi employers in Ohio.

Rack & Ballauer excavating inc. (57 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rack & Ballauer excavating inc.
Rack & Ballauer excavating inc. (57 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Rack & Ballauer excavating inc. has more employees than the Water main and line construction 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 7.3 7.3 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · OH · Hamilton

1,614 Water main and line construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 153 employers in Hamilton, OH · 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 Cash Construction Company 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR McLean Construction, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spanaway Water Company 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MWRD PAR 1225 South Headworks 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mad River 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE HQ 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Equity | ECS 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bolt Construction, Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Hamilton Hospital 1,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3638-F 890 FTE
CITY-NEAR thyssenkrupp Bilstein of America 657 FTE
CITY-NEAR thyssenkrupp Bilstein Main Plant 653 FTE
NAT-TCR Greene Street Vocational Rehabilitation Services 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Composites One LLC - Lenexa 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pittston, PA - Enterprise Way 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Washburn Taco Bell 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paul F. Vitale, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Care Specialists Inc Haverhill 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roseville 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mississippi Market E7 Store 57 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.