Oil field road construction · South Dakota

Bowes Construction, Inc

Brookings, SD · ~76 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Bowes Construction, Inc runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Oil field road construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Bowes Construction, Inc: 2.5 TCR = 91% of Oil field road construction BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowes Construction, Inc safety composite

Bowes Construction, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bowes Construction, Inc: 3.1 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.76× in 2024

Bowes Construction, Inc's TCR rose 1.3 from 3.1 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Brookings, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 91% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #5/19
  • PHOTO Rowe Construction
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rowe Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowes Construction, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowes Construction, Inc averages 2.5 TCR (91% of the Oil field road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Bowes Construction, Inc TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Bowes Construction, Inc falls in its industry

4,078 Oil field road construction establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 19 Oil field road construction employers in South Dakota.

Bowes Construction, Inc (76 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Bowes Construction, Inc
Bowes Construction, Inc (76 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Bowes Construction, Inc has more employees than the Oil field road 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 4.5 4.5 3 0 0
2023 5.6 1.4 4 0 1
2022 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2021 1.4 0.0 0 1 0
2020 3.7 3.7 3 0 0
2019 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2018 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.1 1.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · SD · Brookings

4,078 Oil field road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 59 employers in Brookings, SD · 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 Rowe Construction 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR M & S Construction Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunland Asphalt 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Paradigm Construction 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Puetz Corporation 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pivotal Health Solutions Watertown 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heiman, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR SD01-DAKT-SOUTH DAKOTA BROOKINGS 1,406 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookings 1,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1538 379 FTE
CITY-NEAR Larson Mfg. LLC 378 FTE
NAT-TCR TMX2289 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TMX2779 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Solenis LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rittal North America LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Outdoor Custom Sportswear LLC 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE LML Delivery 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE g2 Revolution, LLC Lake Zurich 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Katahdin Valley Health Center, Houlton 76 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.