Road construction · Texas

Dean Word Company, LTD

New Braunfels, TX · ~108 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dean Word Company, LTD runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Dean Word Company, LTD: 7.5 TCR = 267% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Word Company, LTD safety composite

Dean Word Company, LTD scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dean Word Company, LTD: 2.2 → 15.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2023

Dean Word Company, LTD's TCR rose 13.6 from 2.2 in 2017 to 15.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · New Braunfels, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 267% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #272/286
  • PHOTO Precision Paving of …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~108 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Precision Paving of Tampa, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dean Word Company, LTD in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dean Word Company, LTD averages 7.5 TCR (267% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Dean Word Company, LTD TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2021=4.5 · 2023=15.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Dean Word Company, LTD falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #272 safest of 286 Road construction employers in Texas.

Dean Word Company, LTD (108 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 Dean Word Company, LTD
Dean Word Company, LTD (108 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Dean Word Company, LTD has more employees than the Road construction 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
2023 15.8 5.3 3 0 0
2021 4.5 2.2 6 0 0
2017 2.2 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · TX · New Braunfels

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 183 employers in New Braunfels, TX · 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 Precision Paving of Tampa, Inc 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Marengo - 03PW 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fielder's Choice Enterprises 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SECONDARY ROADS 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tyler Corporate 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Houston Area Office 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshall 5604 Medco Drive, Marshall, TX 75672 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE EC/DC RE12 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resort - New Braunfels 1,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6016 1,026 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6016 1,025 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sysco Central Texas 1,004 FTE
NAT-TCR MDT MVC Labor 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Carrier Vibrating Equipment Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-058-Gallipolis ( RK-058 ) 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Check-Mate Manufacturing 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Benchmark III Corporation 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bath Creek Estates 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Halifax Linen Service 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newburgh Health Care & Residential Cente 108 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: 2023, 2021, 2017. 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.