Excavation contractors · Minnesota

DeCook Contracting, Inc.

Byron, MN · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DeCook Contracting, Inc. runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

DeCook Contracting, Inc.: 4.2 TCR = 148% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DeCook Contracting, Inc. safety composite

DeCook Contracting, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

DeCook Contracting, Inc. held a steady TCR band

DeCook Contracting, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=12.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Byron, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 148% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #27/42
  • PHOTO Ziese & Sons Excavat…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ziese & Sons Excavating, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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DeCook Contracting, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DeCook Contracting, Inc. averages 4.2 TCR (148% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

DeCook Contracting, Inc. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=12.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where DeCook Contracting, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 42 Excavation contractors employers in Minnesota.

DeCook Contracting, Inc. (25 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 DeCook Contracting, Inc.
DeCook Contracting, Inc. (25 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

DeCook Contracting, Inc. has fewer employees than the Excavation contractors median and a higher 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 12.4 6.2 2 0 0
2022 4.2 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · MN · Byron

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 26 employers in Byron, MN · 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 Ziese & Sons Excavating, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MESA EQUIPMENT CO INC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aquatic Resource Restoration Company 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dunrite Excavation Inc. 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Hutchinson, MN 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Park Rapids Trucking 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Country Pork LLP 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN IPH 03-0110-10, 50, 51, 52, 970 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Curtis 1000 Inc - 0096-MNBY1 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taylor Print and Visual Impressions - Byron MN - 0223-MNBY1 182 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochester Breeder Farms 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR DeCook Excavating Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-TCR Mesa Equipment Co Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Silvertip 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Earth Images, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rea Magnet Wire Guilford 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bayside Best Beans LLC. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE iSX Construction, LLC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newway 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frontier Ag Co., Inc. 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.