Railroad construction · Illinois

Swanson Contracting Co., Inc.

Name: Swanson Contracting Co., Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Alsip, IL · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.6
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Swanson Contracting Co., Inc. runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Railroad construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Swanson Contracting Co., Inc.: 5.6 TCR = 199% of Railroad construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swanson Contracting Co., Inc. safety composite

Swanson Contracting Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Swanson Contracting Co., Inc.: 2.8 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2018

Swanson Contracting Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 5.5 from 2.8 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Alsip, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 199% of ind

DART 4.2 DART
RANK #19/23
PHOTO WILLIAMS TRANSCO - B…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WILLIAMS TRANSCO - BENTON (0.0 TCR gap)

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5.6
WILLIAMS TRANS

5.6
Diversified Tr

5.6
Jay Dee Obayas

5.5
Agassiz Drain

5.5

What this shows Swanson Contracting Co., Inc. averages 5.6 TCR (199% of the Railroad construction BLS benchmark).

Swanson Contracting Co., Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2018=8.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Swanson Contracting Co., Inc. falls in its industry

932 Railroad construction establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 23 Railroad construction employers in Illinois.

Swanson Contracting Co., Inc. (36 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Swanson Contracting Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Railroad construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2018	8.3	4.2	2	0	0
2016	2.8	2.8	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · IL · Alsip

932 Railroad construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 117 employers in Alsip, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	WILLIAMS TRANSCO - BENTON	BENTON, PA	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Diversified Track Works LLC	GENESEO, IL	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Jay Dee Obayashi JV	CLEVELAND, OH	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Agassiz Drain Tile	BUXTON, ND	5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard	HARVARD	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CHI Greenhouse LLC	ROCHELLE	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MT ERIE COMPLEX -EST	MT ERIE	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Malta	MALTA	36 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Menasha Packaging Company - Alsip	Alsip	783 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1005 - Alsip	Alsip	594 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Alsip	Alsip	388 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Griffith Foods - Alsip	Alsip	380 FTE
NAT-TCR	Commerce City CO (56th Ave) Depot	Commerce City, CO	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hunter Creek Health & Rehabilitation LLC	Northport, AL	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Battelle - West Jefferson Middle Area	West Jefferson, OH	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	AmeriCare Plus - West Point	Warsaw, VA	5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Milwaukee Depot	West Allis, WI	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Indy Benjamin Franklin Plumbing	Indianapolis, IN	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mt View	Antioch, TN	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Berry Rd salvage	Nashville, TN	36 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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