Industrial building (except warehouses) construction, general contractors · Virginia

D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc.

Covington, VA · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial building (except warehouses) construction, general contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc.: 0.7 TCR = 26% of Industrial building (except warehouses) construction, general contractors BLS 2.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. safety composite

D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2016→2021

D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. injury rate improved

D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.2 from 2.2 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.2 · 2017=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236210 · Covington, VA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/22
  • PHOTO Graycor Industrial C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Graycor Industrial Constructors Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. averages 0.7 TCR (26% of the Industrial building (except warehouses) construction, general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.9

Where D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. falls in its industry

924 Industrial building (except wa establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 22 Industrial building (except wa employers in Virginia.

D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. (39 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc.
D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. (39 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

D.D. Kerns Construction Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Industrial building (except warehouses) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236210 · VA · Covington

924 Industrial building (except warehouses) construction, general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 23 employers in Covington, VA · 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 Graycor Industrial Constructors Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Halls Industrial LLC 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SK Batteries 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JFSNA at ADM Columbus 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics VA Hatch 60 61 62 64 65 66, 950-VA 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utilities - Sewerage Systems 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE DWATTS Construction LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE FGG Herndon 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covington Mill 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3701 Covington Mill 1,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2662 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2662 215 FTE
NAT-TCR Home Office 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Devon Energy Corporation - Weatherford 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brentwood500 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR US109: New Orleans 269 - SG 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boyer Nurseries & Orchards, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poet's Walk Round Rock 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE BHE - Lawrence (KS009) 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE BHGAR - Ozark - Cataberry Run (AR012) 39 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: 2021, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.