Excavation contractors · Oklahoma

D-Kerns Construction Inc

Catoosa, OK · ~72 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D-Kerns Construction Inc runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

D-Kerns Construction Inc: 1.6 TCR = 59% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D-Kerns Construction Inc safety composite

D-Kerns Construction 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

−1.2

2021→2024

D-Kerns Construction Inc injury rate improved

D-Kerns Construction Inc's TCR fell 1.2 from 1.2 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.2 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Catoosa, OK AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/10
  • PHOTO Earthworks Pacific, …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Earthworks Pacific, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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D-Kerns Construction Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D-Kerns Construction Inc averages 1.6 TCR (59% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

D-Kerns Construction Inc TCR series: 2021=1.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where D-Kerns Construction Inc falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oklahoma alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 10 Excavation contractors employers in Oklahoma.

D-Kerns Construction Inc (72 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 D-Kerns Construction Inc
D-Kerns Construction Inc (72 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

D-Kerns Construction Inc has more employees than the Excavation contractors 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 5.3 4.2 5 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · OK · Catoosa

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,320 rated employers in Oklahoma with headcount on file · 45 employers in Catoosa, OK · 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 Earthworks Pacific, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Native Services, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR A-1 Concrete Cutting & Construction, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BREEZE NATIONAL INC 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Valley Power Plant 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE OG&E-River Valley PP 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williams Construction LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE CabotNoritPryor 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kelvion, Inc 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3055 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3055 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR Village Travel Tulsa 181 FTE
NAT-TCR Food City Bridgton 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Condor Fire Spinkler Co., LLC 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Twin City Container, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Heat Treating Services Plant 3 South 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tompkins Metal Finishing, Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE K2 Civil Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eckhardt & Johnson 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dfa Distributing West - Englewood Co 72 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.