Commercial building construction general contractors · California

W. L. Butler

Redwood City, CA · ~222 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W. L. Butler runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

W. L. Butler: 0.8 TCR = 29% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W. L. Butler safety composite

W. L. Butler scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

W. L. Butler: 1.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2024

W. L. Butler's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.0 in 2020 to 1.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Redwood City, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 29% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #72/486
  • PHOTO FCL Builders Georgia…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FCL Builders Georgia, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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W. L. Butler in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W. L. Butler averages 0.8 TCR (29% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

W. L. Butler TCR series: 2020=1 · 2021=1 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 2.9

Where W. L. Butler falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 486 Commercial building constructi employers in California.

W. L. Butler (222 employees, TCR 0.8) 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 W. L. Butler
W. L. Butler (222 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

W. L. Butler has more employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a lower 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
2024 1.7 1.7 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.0 0.5 2 0 0
2020 1.0 1.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · CA · Redwood City

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 116 employers in Redwood City, CA · 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 FCL Builders Georgia, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCCo-KCI 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCCo-NYC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sauer Construction, LLC 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Colligere Farm Management 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE LINCOLN HEIGHTS SERVICE CENTER 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE JB Pacific, Inc. 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turnaround Communications 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 141 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guardant Health 1,513 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120851 1,471 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620851 1,382 FTE
NAT-TCR Gracie's Kitchens Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR McGehee Producers Gin 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone Structural Concrete LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Virginia Community College - MEC 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Air Lift Company 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6509 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Donna Office 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6175 Manhattan West 23rd St 222 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.