Culverts, highway, road and street, construction · Washington

Cates & Erb, Inc.

Omak, WA · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cates & Erb, Inc. runs at 389% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Culverts, highway, road and street, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Cates & Erb, Inc.: 10.9 TCR = 389% of Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cates & Erb, Inc. safety composite

Cates & Erb, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.1

2021→2024

Cates & Erb, Inc. injury rate improved

Cates & Erb, Inc.'s TCR fell 11.1 from 11.1 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 24.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=11.1 · 2022=24.2 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Omak, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 389% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #78/81
  • PHOTO Conway Construction …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Conway Construction Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cates & Erb, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cates & Erb, Inc. averages 10.9 TCR (389% of the Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Cates & Erb, Inc. TCR series: 2021=11.1 · 2022=24.2 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Cates & Erb, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Culverts, highway, road and st establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #78 safest of 81 Culverts, highway, road and st employers in Washington.

Cates & Erb, Inc. (25 employees, TCR 10.9) 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 Cates & Erb, Inc.
Cates & Erb, Inc. (25 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Cates & Erb, Inc. has fewer employees than the Culverts, highway, road and street, cons 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 8.3 8.3 1 0 0
2022 24.2 6.0 3 1 0
2021 11.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · WA · Omak

4,078 Culverts, highway, road and street, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 21 employers in Omak, WA · 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 Conway Construction Company 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Region 3 - Ashland 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR D1 Joliet Yard 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR D8 Nashville Yard 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Balcom and Moe - farm 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE CountyLine Dairy 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE DRAPER VALLEY RANCH 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rock Point Oyster Co 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1947 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1947 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid-Valley Hospital 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omak Clinic 96 FTE
NAT-TCR Versatech Incorporated 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Donsuemor Incorporated 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kentucky Humane Society Main Campus 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2307 - Glendale 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tulane Lakeside - EVS 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE TownePlace Suites 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago Tube and Iron Company Des Moines 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 016k - Eau Claire Wi Rntl 25 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. 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.