Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors · Ohio

Wenger Excavating, Inc.

Dalton, OH · ~51 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wenger Excavating, Inc. runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Wenger Excavating, Inc.: 1.0 TCR = 35% of Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wenger Excavating, Inc. safety composite

Wenger Excavating, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−2.7

2017→2024

Wenger Excavating, Inc. injury rate improved

Wenger Excavating, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.7 from 2.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.7 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Dalton, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/63
  • PHOTO Meriwether Site Solu…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meriwether Site Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wenger Excavating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wenger Excavating, Inc. averages 1.0 TCR (35% of the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Wenger Excavating, Inc. TCR series: 2017=2.7 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Wenger Excavating, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or la establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 63 Excavating, earthmoving, or la employers in Ohio.

Wenger Excavating, Inc. (51 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Wenger Excavating, Inc.
Wenger Excavating, Inc. (51 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Wenger Excavating, Inc. has more employees than the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearin 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
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 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2017 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · OH · Dalton

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 15 employers in Dalton, OH · 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 Meriwether Site Solutions 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwest Demolition & Dismantling Inc 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cherry Concrete Removal, Ltd. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Petillo Incorporated 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Portsmouth Service Center 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE National Gas & Oil 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE 922-NiSource-Zanesville OH-Muskingum Op Ctr 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE GEM Industrial Inc. - Potash PCS 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR PGD1 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wayne-Dalton Rolling Door 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Overhead Corporation 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR VT Hackney - Kidron Division - Kidron, Ohio 107 FTE
NAT-TCR Corporate Office 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Anaheim Ducks Hockey Club, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Electric Mills Kentucky 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Orbis Mes 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dan Drake Enterprises, LLC 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prime Hospitality Group 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE US CA Victorville Plant 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rapid City SD Yard 51 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, 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.