Construction management, commercial and institutional building · Alaska

Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc.

North Pole, AK · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc. runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Construction management, commercial and institutional building workplace, earning a grade D.

Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc.: 5.1 TCR = 175% of Construction management, commercial and institutional building BLS 2.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc. safety composite

Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc.: 3.4 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2019

Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.4 from 3.4 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · North Pole, AK ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 175% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #22/27
  • PHOTO Haggerty Constructio…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Haggerty Construction Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc. averages 5.1 TCR (175% of the Construction management, commercial and institutional building BLS benchmark).

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

Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2019=6.8 · BLS 2.9

Where Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc. falls in its industry

4,692 Construction management, comme establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alaska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 27 Construction management, comme employers in Alaska.

Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc. (39 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc.
Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc. (39 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Universal Welding & Fabrication, Inc. has fewer employees than the Construction management, commercial and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 6.8 4.5 3 0 0
2016 3.4 3.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · AK · North Pole

4,692 Construction management, commercial and institutional building employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 11 employers in North Pole, AK · 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 Haggerty Construction Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilmer R. Schultz, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Krupp General Contractors, LLC 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LARRY JACINTO CONSTRUCTION, INC. 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bristol General Contractors, LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Megawatt Electric, LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechanical Specialists, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chinook Fire Protection Inc 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-01821 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0027-0027-01821 FAC-01821-NORTH POLE-AK 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6400-SWY 0027 1821 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Exclusive Construction 85 FTE
NAT-TCR Casa Esperanza 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 0549 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 3330 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0025 1866 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Interstate Blood and Plasma - Wilkes-Barre, PA 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Interstate Blood Bank, Inc. - Milwaukee (National), WI 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE NGTS-A650 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #0092 39 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: 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.