Excavation contractors · Indiana

Star Excavating

Huntington, IN · ~40 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Star Excavating runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Star Excavating: 3.0 TCR = 107% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Star Excavating safety composite

Star Excavating scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.6

2016→2024

Star Excavating injury rate improved

Star Excavating's TCR fell 4.6 from 7.4 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.4 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Huntington, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 107% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #30/39
  • PHOTO BLE, Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BLE, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Star Excavating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Star Excavating averages 3.0 TCR (107% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Star Excavating TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Star Excavating falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 39 Excavation contractors employers in Indiana.

Star Excavating (40 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Star Excavating
Star Excavating (40 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Star Excavating has fewer 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 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.5 2.7 2 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2016 7.4 2.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · IN · Huntington

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 59 employers in Huntington, IN · 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 BLE, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elder Demolition 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JES Engineering Contractors 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mountaineer Contractors 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE 320-NiSource-Chesterton IN-Bailly Gen 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baer Field Service Center 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE IND-DWH-INDIANA 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Teijin Automotive Technologies, INC 620 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems 528 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Technologies Electronic Controls, Inc. 461 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC -Huntington 410 FTE
NAT-TCR Ballston Spa 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Transystems LLC - Twin Falls Project 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Zentis NA - Philadelphia 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Stretch Forming Corporation 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Homewood Suites 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas Nameplate Company 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Water/Wastewater Department 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montcalm County Road Commission 40 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, 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.