Irrigation project construction (except lawn) · Nevada

Rafael Building Trades

Las Vegas, NV · ~46 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rafael Building Trades runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Irrigation project construction (except lawn) workplace, earning a grade D.

Rafael Building Trades: 4.4 TCR = 157% of Irrigation project construction (except lawn) BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rafael Building Trades safety composite

Rafael Building Trades scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Rafael Building Trades: 4.8 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.86× in 2023

Rafael Building Trades's TCR rose 3.4 from 4.8 in 2018 to 8.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Las Vegas, NV ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 157% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #14/17
  • PHOTO Elcor Construction
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elcor Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rafael Building Trades in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rafael Building Trades averages 4.4 TCR (157% of the Irrigation project construction (except lawn) BLS benchmark).

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

Rafael Building Trades TCR series: 2018=4.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=8.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Rafael Building Trades falls in its industry

1,614 Irrigation project constructio establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nevada alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 17 Irrigation project constructio employers in Nevada.

Rafael Building Trades (46 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Rafael Building Trades
Rafael Building Trades (46 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Rafael Building Trades has fewer employees than the Irrigation project construction (except 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
2023 8.2 8.2 4 0 0
2022 6.4 4.3 3 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.8 4.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · NV · Las Vegas

1,614 Irrigation project construction (except lawn) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 4,574 rated employers in Nevada with headcount on file · 2,247 employers in Las Vegas, NV · 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 Elcor Construction 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dale Moody 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VALLEY PUMP ARMONA 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haas Son's Inc. 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Envise Southwest 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Confections Nevada, LLC 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metl-Span North Las Vegas 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE AZZ Galvanizing - Reno, LLC 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wynn Las Vegas 12,830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Venetian Casino Resort, LLC 8,538 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Nevada, Las Vegas 8,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bellagio llc 6,383 FTE
NAT-TCR Mkg of Pearisburg 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR White Crane Company Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #1274 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Roofing Standards, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amigos Meats Distributors East 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quikrete - Slc 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dunn Heat Exchangers Bay City 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE B & C Wood Components LLC 46 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.