Water main and line construction · Connecticut

Water & Sewer - Charter Oak

Manchester, CT · ~19 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Water & Sewer - Charter Oak runs at 516% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water main and line construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Water & Sewer - Charter Oak: 14.4 TCR = 516% of Water main and line construction BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Water & Sewer - Charter Oak safety composite

Water & Sewer - Charter Oak scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Water & Sewer - Charter Oak: 12.0 → 18.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 43.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2023

Water & Sewer - Charter Oak's TCR rose 6.2 from 12.0 in 2016 to 18.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 43.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Manchester, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 516% of ind

  • DART 18.2 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Randolph Office
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Randolph Office (0.1 TCR gap)

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Water & Sewer - Charter Oak in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Water & Sewer - Charter Oak averages 14.4 TCR (516% of the Water main and line construction BLS benchmark).

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

Water & Sewer - Charter Oak TCR series: 2016=12 · 2017=43.2 · 2018=12.7 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=11.9 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=18.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Water & Sewer - Charter Oak falls in its industry

1,614 Water main and line constructi establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 11 Water main and line constructi employers in Connecticut.

Water & Sewer - Charter Oak (19 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Water & Sewer - Charter Oak
Water & Sewer - Charter Oak (19 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Water & Sewer - Charter Oak has fewer employees than the Water main and line construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 18.2 18.2 3 0 0
2022 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2021 11.9 11.9 3 0 0
2020 5.9 5.9 1 0 0
2019 5.9 5.9 1 0 0
2018 12.7 6.3 2 0 0
2017 43.2 21.6 7 1 0
2016 12.0 6.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · CT · Manchester

1,614 Water main and line construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 145 employers in Manchester, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Randolph Office 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR J.H. Thompson & Sons Inc 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Halbrook Excavating Inc 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Layne Christensen 721 West Illinois Avenue 13.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Waterford 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE City Of Meriden Water Pollution 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Babbidge 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Town of East Hampton - Public Works 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manchester Memorial Hospital 1,652 FTE
CITY-NEAR 235 MANCHESTER CT 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1891 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Office 381 FTE
NAT-TCR Fire Department 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ISD #701 District Wide 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Man-Inc-Mansfield Juvenile Treat 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Arden Courts of Winter Springs 14.4 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.