Railroad construction · California

ZA Construction - CA

Newcastle, CA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ZA Construction - CA runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Railroad construction workplace, earning a grade C.

ZA Construction - CA: 3.1 TCR = 112% of Railroad construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ZA Construction - CA safety composite

ZA Construction - CA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−6.3

2023→2024

ZA Construction - CA injury rate improved

ZA Construction - CA's TCR fell 6.3 from 6.3 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Newcastle, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 112% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #62/92
  • PHOTO Chehalis
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chehalis (0.0 TCR gap)

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ZA Construction - CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ZA Construction - CA averages 3.1 TCR (112% of the Railroad construction BLS benchmark).

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

ZA Construction - CA TCR series: 2023=6.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where ZA Construction - CA falls in its industry

932 Railroad construction establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 92 Railroad construction employers in California.

ZA Construction - CA (20 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ZA Construction - CA
ZA Construction - CA (20 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

ZA Construction - CA has fewer employees than the Railroad construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 6.3 6.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · CA · Newcastle

932 Railroad construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 7 employers in Newcastle, 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 Chehalis 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR JFShea Construction-IN 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DA McCosker Construction 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sills Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALMEX CONTRACTING INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Antler Ranch LLC 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ace Tree Enterprise Inc. 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR A&A Stepping Stone Mfg. Inc. 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jim Dobbas, Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR NCB-Main 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Pottstown 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Orlando 8600 Hangar Blvd 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Related Management Company LP One Bennett Park 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ocean Spray Cranberries 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Texarkana 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashley Valley Medical Center LLC - EVS 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branan Lodge 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jenison 20 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.