Industry profile · NAICS 237110

Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction

Workplace injury rates across 1,829 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

1,829
Employers
3.9
Avg TCR
2.8
BLS benchmark
19,251
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction average 3.9 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.4 times the BLS national benchmark of 2.8.

3.9
avg TCR · reporting employers
2.8
BLS national benchmark
1,829
employers reporting
19,251
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction Safety Data Reveals

The Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction sector (NAICS 237110) encompasses 1,829 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 19,251 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 3.9 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 2.8 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 3.9 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
Weiss Construction Co., LLC Novi, MI F 6.0
SCUP Watsonville, CA F 6.0
Jax Dirtworks, Inc. Atlantic Beach, FL F 6.0
Albanese Brothers, Inc. Dracut, MA F 6.0
Maxwell Construction Iowa City, IA F 6.0
Stanley Miller Construction Co Main East Sparta, OH F 5.9
Ohno Construction Company Seattle, WA F 5.9
Delta Pipeline, Inc. La Verne, CA F 5.9
Cary Apex, NC F 5.9
ProPump and Controls Inc Shelbyville, KY F 5.9
Apex Plumbing Temporary Work Sites Wheat Ridge, CO F 5.9
Hydro Resources, MDC Garden City Garden City, KS F 5.9
Texas Justin, TX F 5.8
Smith & Brown Contractors Inc Harrison, OH F 5.8
Flowline Contractors, Inc. Sacramento, CA F 5.8
Schumacher Excavating Inc Zumbrota, MN F 5.8
Weber Field Crews Ormond Beach, FL F 5.8
Oscar Renda Contracting Inc- DFW Dallas, TX F 5.8
Main Yard Waianae, HI F 5.8
On Track Construction, LLC Nevada, IA F 5.8
Atoka Water Pipeline Atoka, OK F 5.8
Stewart Creek Frisco, TX F 5.8
Big Sky ID, Corp. Hayden, ID F 5.8
H2O Well Service Inc. Hayden, ID F 5.8
D'Allessandro Corp. Avon, MA F 5.8
Southern Constructors, Inc Knoxville, TN F 5.8
Glen W. Gilbert San Jose, CA F 5.8
Krapff Reynolds Construction Oklahoma City, OK F 5.8
Osborne Utility Construction LLC Midland, NC F 5.7
City of Madisonville - Wastewater Collection Madisonville, KY F 5.7
Absolute Group - Utility Division Granger, IA F 5.7
Kana Riverside, CA F 5.7
Utility Services/Construction Wilmington, NC F 5.7
Spectrum Underground, Inc. Sarasota, FL F 5.7
EZ Excavating Frederick, CO F 5.7
Layne Christensen 7915 Cherrywood Loop Kiowa, CO F 5.7
Shook Construction - Greene County NRWTP Self Performed Work Beavercreek, OH F 5.7
Town of Bargersville Bargersville, IN F 5.7
Alder Construction Company Salt Lake City, UT F 5.6
Universal Land Construction Company Woodinville, WA F 5.6
Blake Drilling Company, Inc. Blaine, MN D 5.6
S.M. Hentges & Sons Inc Jordan, MN D 5.6
PW Utilities - Water Facility Operations- Central/North/South Millersville, MD D 5.6
Pipeline Utilities Inc. Raleigh, NC D 5.6
W. Walsh Company, Inc. Attleboro, MA D 5.5
Rainey Construction Company Middleton, FL D 5.5
Northern Virginia Drilling Inc. Office Manassas, VA D 5.5
Turf Construction Camarillo, CA D 5.5
Adams Robinson Enterprises, Inc. Dayton, OH D 5.5
Roberts Excavation Corporation Berthoud, CO D 5.5
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This sector averages 3.9 against a BLS benchmark of 2.8 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.