Guardrail construction · Texas

Bowen Industrial Contractors

El Paso, TX · ~103 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowen Industrial Contractors runs at 36% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Guardrail construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Bowen Industrial Contractors: 1.0 TCR = 36% of Guardrail construction BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowen Industrial Contractors safety composite

Bowen Industrial Contractors scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Bowen Industrial Contractors held a steady TCR band

Bowen Industrial Contractors's TCR held near 0.1 from 0.7 in 2016 to 0.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.7 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · El Paso, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 36% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #68/286
  • PHOTO South East District
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South East District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowen Industrial Contractors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowen Industrial Contractors averages 1.0 TCR (36% of the Guardrail construction BLS benchmark).

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

Bowen Industrial Contractors TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Bowen Industrial Contractors falls in its industry

4,078 Guardrail construction establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 286 Guardrail construction employers in Texas.

Bowen Industrial Contractors (103 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Bowen Industrial Contractors
Bowen Industrial Contractors (103 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Bowen Industrial Contractors has more employees than the Guardrail 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
2020 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.5 2.5 3 0 0
2016 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · TX · El Paso

4,078 Guardrail construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 974 employers in El Paso, TX · 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 South East District 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Konkus Corporation 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JH STRAIN & SONS, INC. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Decatur Main 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dairy Fountain 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEXAS PRODUCERS COOP AMHERST 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAM-USA 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aadvantage Panels & Fence, Inc DBA MyTCoat 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Paso 2,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alegre Home Health Care, LLC EL PASO 1,942 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - El Paso 1,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR MVT Services, LLC 1,798 FTE
NAT-TCR Care Centers Management Consulting, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlas Copco Tools and Assembly LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region (110-9313) 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Willacoochee Industrial Fabrics 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gas Division 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Run Inc 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neesvigs Duraform Lane 103 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.