Road construction · Alaska

Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom

Kotzebue, AK · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom: 4.7 TCR = 166% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom safety composite

Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom: 0.0 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom's TCR rose 9.3 from 0.0 in 2021 to 9.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Kotzebue, AK ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 166% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/25
  • PHOTO Bi State Constructio…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bi State Construction Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom averages 4.7 TCR (166% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=9.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alaska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 25 Road construction employers in Alaska.

Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom (23 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom
Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom (23 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Brice Inc. - Kotzebue Cape Blossom has fewer employees than the Road construction median and a higher 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
2023 9.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · AK · Kotzebue

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 4 employers in Kotzebue, AK · 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 Bi State Construction Company 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LBR LGV 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Pavements, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jones Bros., Inc. 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rig 141 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rig 16 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE AWWU Asplund WWTF 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seward Highway - Mass Excavation 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR MANIILAQ HEALTH CTR, HK 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nullagvik Hotel 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kotzebue Alaska CS 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Goodview Elementary 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Natural Formulas 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Construction - Bld: 5356 - 01 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Trego/Dugan Aviation Inc Fll 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ironwood Homes, inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jim Mansell Trucking, Inc 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE M & S Paving and Sealing, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apex Logistics International Inc. SFO 23 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: 2023, 2021. 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.