Aqueduct construction · Kentucky

Akins Excavating CO

Corbin, KY · ~33 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Akins Excavating CO runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Aqueduct construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Akins Excavating CO: 0.6 TCR = 23% of Aqueduct construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Akins Excavating CO safety composite

Akins Excavating CO scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Akins Excavating CO held a steady TCR band

Akins Excavating CO's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 73.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=73.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Corbin, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 23% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/29
  • PHOTO W.M. Schultz Constru…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: W.M. Schultz Construction, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Akins Excavating CO in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Akins Excavating CO averages 0.6 TCR (23% of the Aqueduct construction BLS benchmark).

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

Akins Excavating CO TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=73.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Akins Excavating CO falls in its industry

1,614 Aqueduct construction establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 29 Aqueduct construction employers in Kentucky.

Akins Excavating CO (33 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Akins Excavating CO
Akins Excavating CO (33 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Akins Excavating CO has fewer employees than the Aqueduct construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 73.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · KY · Corbin

1,614 Aqueduct construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 49 employers in Corbin, KY · 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 W.M. Schultz Construction, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arrow Construction 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office and all other sites 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 103517 - Jett - WI281 Settling Tank Rehab 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Appharvest Richmond Farm, LLC. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earlington 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earlington Operations Center 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muldraugh Station 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Corbin 1,312 FTE
CITY-NEAR CTA Acoustics, Inc 683 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1259 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1259 326 FTE
NAT-TCR Dealership - Sylmar 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amerigo Farms Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Expeditors International 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RCUH/Core Staff 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stoneledge Furniture LLC- Palmdale 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0072 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0177 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0227 33 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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