Excavation contractors · Georgia

Vertical Earth Inc.

Cumming, GA · ~278 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vertical Earth Inc. runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

Vertical Earth Inc.: 2.1 TCR = 74% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vertical Earth Inc. safety composite

Vertical Earth Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−2.3

2021→2024

Vertical Earth Inc. injury rate improved

Vertical Earth Inc.'s TCR fell 2.3 from 3.1 in 2021 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.1 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Cumming, GA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #23/42
  • PHOTO Mark Schaffer Excava…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~278 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mark Schaffer Excavating & Trucking, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vertical Earth Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vertical Earth Inc. averages 2.1 TCR (74% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Vertical Earth Inc. TCR series: 2021=3.1 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Vertical Earth Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Georgia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 42 Excavation contractors employers in Georgia.

Vertical Earth Inc. (278 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Vertical Earth Inc.
Vertical Earth Inc. (278 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Vertical Earth Inc. has more 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
2024 0.9 0.9 4 0 0
2023 2.2 2.2 5 0 0
2021 3.1 3.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · GA · Cumming

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 14,941 rated employers in Georgia with headcount on file · 139 employers in Cumming, GA · 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 Mark Schaffer Excavating & Trucking, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR KDW Construction, LLC. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bullseye Construction, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Rock Demolition 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glen Ellyn 278 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 6 278 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant 23 278 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hiram Plant 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northside Forsyth 4,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northside Hospital Forsyth 3,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cumming Plant 1,173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Foods-Cumming 1,138 FTE
NAT-TCR Tucson 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassus GR Colorado Springs 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR VFP.inc 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR OrthoCarolina 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Singer Equipment Company 278 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lutheran Hillside Village 278 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Milagro Inc. Western 278 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prime Now LLC - UTX4 278 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: 2024, 2023, 2021. 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.