Cellular phone tower construction · California

RD Engineering & Construction, Inc.

El Cajon, CA · ~62 workers · 2 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

RD Engineering & Construction, Inc. runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cellular phone tower construction workplace, earning a grade C.

RD Engineering & Construction, Inc.: 2.5 TCR = 88% of Cellular phone tower construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RD Engineering & Construction, Inc. safety composite

RD Engineering & Construction, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

RD Engineering & Construction, Inc.: 2.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

RD Engineering & Construction, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.9 from 2.0 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · El Cajon, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 88% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #75/147
  • PHOTO Construction Solutio…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Construction Solutions Group (0.0 TCR gap)

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RD Engineering & Construction, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RD Engineering & Construction, Inc. averages 2.5 TCR (88% of the Cellular phone tower construction BLS benchmark).

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

RD Engineering & Construction, Inc. TCR series: 2017=2 · 2023=2.9 · BLS 2.8

Where RD Engineering & Construction, Inc. falls in its industry

1,605 Cellular phone tower construct establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #75 safest of 147 Cellular phone tower construct employers in California.

RD Engineering & Construction, Inc. (62 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate RD Engineering & Construction, Inc.
RD Engineering & Construction, Inc. (62 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

RD Engineering & Construction, Inc. has fewer employees than the Cellular phone tower construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 2.9 0.0 2 0 0
2017 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · CA · El Cajon

1,605 Cellular phone tower construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 236 employers in El Cajon, CA · 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 Construction Solutions Group 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henkels & McCoy, Inc - Farmingdale, NJ 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Murfreesboro, TN Office CS 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate office 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zipper Farms, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crain Marketing, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maricopa Orchards, LLC 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTLAND ORCHIDS 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN REGION : SDU 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 370 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics 1,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem Tronics 938 FTE
NAT-TCR Middletown, Ny #114 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Manchester #125 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Guilderland #183 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Milltronics USA 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Florida Bath and Surfaces 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE SKF Specialty Balls 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Shale Moncure 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pawtucket, RI 62 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, 2017. 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.