Excavation contractors · New York

WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp.

Castleton, NY · ~86 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. runs at 10% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp.: 0.3 TCR = 10% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. safety composite

WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.89 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%).

Rising injury rate

WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp.: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1.0 TCR · DART/TCR 3.3× in 2022

WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp.'s TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 3.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Castleton, NY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 10% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #1/70
  • PHOTO Plateau Excavation, …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plateau Excavation, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. averages 0.3 TCR (10% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=1 · 2022=0.9 · BLS 2.8

Where WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 70 Excavation contractors employers in New York.

WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. (86 employees, TCR 0.3) 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 WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp.
WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. (86 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

WM. J. Keller & Sons Construction Corp. 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
2022 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2021 1.0 1.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · NY · Castleton

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 12 employers in Castleton, NY · 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 Plateau Excavation, Inc 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brazos M&E 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Degen Excavating Company, Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mayo Ash Basin Closure 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Giroux Orchards, LLC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE PlugPV LLC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE HFZ Capital Group 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alure 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeBrino Caulking Associates Inc 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Center for Rehabilitlation and Nursing 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Albany 75 FTE
NAT-TCR Nevada Main Office 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR La Posada 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2934 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE East Central Oklahoma Electric Cooperative 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solomon Group 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Bay Packaging- Great Lakes Division 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quantum Design, Inc. 86 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.