Airport runway lighting contractors · Nebraska

DACO Construction Co., Inc.

Norfolk, NE · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DACO Construction Co., Inc. runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Airport runway lighting contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

DACO Construction Co., Inc.: 2.4 TCR = 86% of Airport runway lighting contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DACO Construction Co., Inc. safety composite

DACO Construction Co., Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

DACO Construction Co., Inc.: 0.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

DACO Construction Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 5.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 5.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Norfolk, NE AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/47
  • PHOTO Sprint Electric Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sprint Electric Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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DACO Construction Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DACO Construction Co., Inc. averages 2.4 TCR (86% of the Airport runway lighting contractors BLS benchmark).

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

DACO Construction Co., Inc. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=5 · BLS 2.8

Where DACO Construction Co., Inc. falls in its industry

4,550 Airport runway lighting contra establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 47 Airport runway lighting contra employers in Nebraska.

DACO Construction Co., Inc. (30 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate DACO Construction Co., Inc.
DACO Construction Co., Inc. (30 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

DACO Construction Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Airport runway lighting 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 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · NE · Norfolk

4,550 Airport runway lighting contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 87 employers in Norfolk, NE · 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 Sprint Electric Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK Electric Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fureigh Electric 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR B.J Baldwin, Inc. 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Whitetail, LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lost Island, Inc. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTZ Construction, LLC 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Engineering- North Platte 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Faith Regional Health Services West Campus 823 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nucor Steel Nebraska 506 FTE
CITY-NEAR AWG, Norfolk 493 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vulcraft Nebraska 460 FTE
NAT-TCR 01 - Towne Market 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Picayune 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR S08953 - Moreno Valley Transfer Station 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Arco Excavation and Paving, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Premium Plumbing 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engler Electric Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Senne & Company Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wisconsin Metal Tech 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. 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.