Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) · New York

Utility Contractors

West Seneca, NY · ~36 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Utility Contractors runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) workplace, earning a grade A.

Utility Contractors: 0.6 TCR = 21% of Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Utility Contractors safety composite

Utility Contractors scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−2.9

2017→2021

Utility Contractors injury rate improved

Utility Contractors's TCR fell 2.9 from 2.9 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.9 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · West Seneca, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 21% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/46
  • PHOTO INEOS Oxide Plaquemi…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: INEOS Oxide Plaquemine LA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Utility Contractors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Utility Contractors averages 0.6 TCR (21% of the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS benchmark).

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

Utility Contractors TCR series: 2017=2.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Utility Contractors falls in its industry

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 46 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und employers in New York.

Utility Contractors (36 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Utility Contractors
Utility Contractors (36 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Utility Contractors has fewer employees than the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground c median and a lower 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
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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · NY · West Seneca

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 58 employers in West Seneca, NY · 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 INEOS Oxide Plaquemine LA 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stone Ridge Contracting, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phillips and Jordan, Incorporated - C-43 Soil Cement 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dow Chemical Company Deer Park TX 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CY Farms, LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry W. Agle and Sons, Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hansen Farms, LLC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Preble Hill Farms LLC 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Certo Brothers Distributing Co 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayer Bros West Seneca 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Certo Brothers 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR SENECA HEALTH CARE CENTER LLC 223 FTE
NAT-TCR Leisure Homestead at St. John 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenberry Industrial, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dal Tile International 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Behr Midway 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cambria Hotel & Suites 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE The City of Pana, Illinois 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gilster Corrugated 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Furniture Rental-San Fran 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.