Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors · Massachusetts

W.L. French Excavating Corp

North Billerica, MA · ~210 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

W.L. French Excavating Corp runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

W.L. French Excavating Corp: 2.5 TCR = 89% of Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

W.L. French Excavating Corp safety composite

W.L. French Excavating Corp scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

W.L. French Excavating Corp: 1.9 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2023

W.L. French Excavating Corp's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.9 in 2017 to 2.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · North Billerica, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 89% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #27/56
  • PHOTO Heavy Equipment Rent…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~210 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heavy Equipment Rental, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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W.L. French Excavating Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows W.L. French Excavating Corp averages 2.5 TCR (89% 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

W.L. French Excavating Corp TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=5 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=2.4 · BLS 2.8

Where W.L. French Excavating Corp falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or la establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 56 Excavating, earthmoving, or la employers in Massachusetts.

W.L. French Excavating Corp (210 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 W.L. French Excavating Corp
W.L. French Excavating Corp (210 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

W.L. French Excavating Corp has more employees than the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearin 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
2023 2.4 2.0 6 0 0
2022 3.2 0.8 8 0 0
2021 5.0 3.2 14 0 0
2020 0.8 0.4 2 0 0
2019 2.9 2.5 6 0 0
2018 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2017 1.9 1.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · MA · North Billerica

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 29 employers in North Billerica, MA · 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 Heavy Equipment Rental, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ICS MATERIALS, INC. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nichols 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR AED - Youngstown 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main office 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE Master Millwork LLC 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE 00 Milford EM 210 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10222 Swampscott 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR All Divisions 595 FTE
CITY-NEAR Billerica 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR Teledyne FLIR Billerica 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZNBI 239 FTE
NAT-TCR University Subaru Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Seattle Safety 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NeCo Seed Farms, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cabinetworks Group 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Webco Industries - Mannford Speciality Tube 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Management Group Inc. 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlas Roofing Corporation 210 FTE
NAT-SIZE Munters Selma 210 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.