Excavation contractors · Texas

Smith Contracting Co. Inc.

Austin, TX · ~160 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith Contracting Co. Inc. runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Smith Contracting Co. Inc.: 4.6 TCR = 165% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith Contracting Co. Inc. safety composite

Smith Contracting Co. Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Smith Contracting Co. Inc.: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Smith Contracting Co. Inc.'s TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 165% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #123/147
  • PHOTO Burgess Civil, LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Burgess Civil, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith Contracting Co. Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith Contracting Co. Inc. averages 4.6 TCR (165% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Smith Contracting Co. Inc. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Smith Contracting Co. Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #123 safest of 147 Excavation contractors employers in Texas.

Smith Contracting Co. Inc. (160 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Smith Contracting Co. Inc.
Smith Contracting Co. Inc. (160 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Smith Contracting Co. Inc. has more employees than the Excavation contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 2.8 2.8 5 0 0
2023 2.2 2.2 4 0 0
2022 4.2 3.2 8 0 0
2021 9.8 3.3 18 0 0
2020 6.8 6.8 10 2 0
2019 6.4 3.7 12 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · TX · Austin

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, 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 Burgess Civil, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR New England Boring Contractors 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WestWind Contracting, Inc. Pemroke Park 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robert H. Law, Inc. 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE LRM San Antonio 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Miguel Electric Cooperative, Inc 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rio Grande Electric Cooperative, Inc. 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAM Industrial Solutions @ Citgo Corpus Christi 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR Earth Island, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NPK Construction Equipment 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamilton 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6207 Manchester Ct 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Metro Honda 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Prior Lake 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crowne Health Care of Mobile 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jahabow LLC 160 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.