Farm drainage tile installation · North Dakota

Agassiz Drain Tile

Name: Agassiz Drain Tile Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Buxton, ND · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.5
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Agassiz Drain Tile runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm drainage tile installation workplace, earning a grade D.

Agassiz Drain Tile: 5.5 TCR = 196% of Farm drainage tile installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Agassiz Drain Tile safety composite

Agassiz Drain Tile scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

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Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Agassiz Drain Tile held a steady TCR band

Agassiz Drain Tile's TCR held near 0.1 from 5.4 in 2017 to 5.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.4 · 2018=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Buxton, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 196% of ind

DART 5.6 DART
RANK P11
PHOTO Jay Dee Obayashi JV
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jay Dee Obayashi JV (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Agassiz Drain Tile averages 5.5 TCR (196% of the Farm drainage tile installation BLS benchmark).

Agassiz Drain Tile TCR series: 2017=5.4 · 2018=5.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Agassiz Drain Tile falls in its industry

932 Farm drainage tile installatio establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Agassiz Drain Tile (31 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Agassiz Drain Tile has fewer employees than the Farm drainage tile installation 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
2018	5.6	5.6	1	0	0
2017	5.4	5.4	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · ND · Buxton

932 Farm drainage tile installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Buxton, ND · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Jay Dee Obayashi JV	CLEVELAND, OH	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MCELVANY, INC.	LOS BANOS, CA	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	V3 Companies - Trades	WOODRIDGE, IL	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	R.E. Staite Engineering	SAN DIEGO, CA	5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Continental Resources - Watford City, ND	WATFORD CITY	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	North Dakota Operations Center	BERTHOLD	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CCI - Construction Sites	WAHPETON	31 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Red River Rural Telephone Association; DBA Red River Communications	ABERCROMBIE	31 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Buxton	Buxton	50 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Central Valley Bean Co-Op	Buxton	27 FTE
NAT-TCR	Brookdale River Road	Keizer, OR	5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	The Hinckley Company	Trenton, ME	5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Manor Care Health Services - Sinking Spring	Sinking Spring, PA	5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Iga #16	Greensburg, KY	5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	The Robbins Company Conveyor Division	Fayetteville, WV	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Main Street	State Center, IA	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Fairfield	Fairfield, OH	31 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Chesapeake Depot	Atlanta, GA	31 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.