Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors · Minnesota

Burski Excavating, INC

Rice, MN · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burski Excavating, INC runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Burski Excavating, INC: 1.3 TCR = 48% of Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burski Excavating, INC safety composite

Burski Excavating, INC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2020→2024

Burski Excavating, INC injury rate improved

Burski Excavating, INC's TCR fell 0.6 from 3.6 in 2020 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Rice, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/42
  • PHOTO Sterling Access Solu…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sterling Access Solutions, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Burski Excavating, INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burski Excavating, INC averages 1.3 TCR (48% of the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Burski Excavating, INC TCR series: 2020=3.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=3 · BLS 2.8

Where Burski Excavating, INC falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or la establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 42 Excavating, earthmoving, or la employers in Minnesota.

Burski Excavating, INC (30 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Burski Excavating, INC
Burski Excavating, INC (30 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Burski Excavating, INC has fewer employees than the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · MN · Rice

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 11 employers in Rice, MN · 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 Sterling Access Solutions, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JL Machinery 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR G & R CHARLES EXCAVATING LTD 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Breinholt Contracting Co., Inc 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nelson Nursery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Plains Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Westland Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipestone Grow Finish 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foodservice Minnesota - 1016 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Performance Minnesota - 1016 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virnig Manufacturing Rice MN 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foodservice Northland Cheese - 1036 122 FTE
NAT-TCR Sperber Landscape Companies, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Twinbrook Assisted Living Apartments 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 49G7 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Anomatic Corporation- New Albany 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Milledgeville Retail 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Club 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ancrfng, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wag Services, Inc. 30 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.