Excavation contractors · Utah

Sterling Don Excavation

Orem, UT · ~17 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sterling Don Excavation runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Sterling Don Excavation: 2.4 TCR = 86% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sterling Don Excavation safety composite

Sterling Don Excavation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−4.8

2018→2019

Sterling Don Excavation injury rate improved

Sterling Don Excavation's TCR fell 4.8 from 4.8 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.8 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Orem, UT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/23
  • PHOTO USA Earthworks LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: USA Earthworks LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sterling Don Excavation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sterling Don Excavation averages 2.4 TCR (86% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Sterling Don Excavation TCR series: 2018=4.8 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Sterling Don Excavation falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Utah alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 23 Excavation contractors employers in Utah.

Sterling Don Excavation (17 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Sterling Don Excavation
Sterling Don Excavation (17 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sterling Don Excavation has fewer employees than the Excavation contractors median and a lower 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · UT · Orem

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,861 rated employers in Utah with headcount on file · 119 employers in Orem, UT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR USA Earthworks LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&B wrecking & Excavating. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR James W. Flett Co., Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RES Twin Cities 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE VERNAL 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE HB Jasso Exteriors, LLC 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hamer Nicker Enterprises, Inc. 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE DTL Builders Inc. 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Timpanogos Regional Hospital 664 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountainland Supply Co 593 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1768 435 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1768 430 FTE
NAT-TCR LSC Communications 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Farm Work 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Faf Cvg 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Faf Iah 2.4 TCR

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: 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.