Excavation contractors · Minnesota

Valley-Rich

Chaska, MN · ~36 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley-Rich runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Valley-Rich: 3.6 TCR = 130% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley-Rich safety composite

Valley-Rich scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−5.5

2017→2019

Valley-Rich injury rate improved

Valley-Rich's TCR fell 5.5 from 5.5 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.5 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Chaska, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/42
  • PHOTO Westwind Contracting
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Westwind Contracting (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley-Rich in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley-Rich averages 3.6 TCR (130% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Valley-Rich TCR series: 2017=5.5 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Valley-Rich falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 42 Excavation contractors employers in Minnesota.

Valley-Rich (36 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 Valley-Rich
Valley-Rich (36 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Valley-Rich 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.4 2.7 2 0 0
2017 5.5 5.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · MN · Chaska

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 87 employers in Chaska, MN · 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 Westwind Contracting 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jack Robinson & Sons Inc 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terence Froman, Inc 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR QGS Development, Inc. 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prairie Moon Nursery 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience - Olivia MN R&D 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Counties Cooperative Litchfield 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2011-Stanton, MN (Monsanto Co.) 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diagnostics : Beckman Coulter - Chaska 917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Region Medical 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Entegris - Chaska 731 FTE
CITY-NEAR Administration 596 FTE
NAT-TCR Thomann Asphalt Paving Corp 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Mfg 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 0525 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Folger Detention Equioment Company - Construction Division 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE ATI South 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universal Recycling Technologies-TX 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Outpatient Services & CRS Apartments 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Falls /Mountain Vista 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.