Land drainage contractors · Minnesota

DeCook Drainage, Inc.

Byron, MN · ~11 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DeCook Drainage, Inc. runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Land drainage contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

DeCook Drainage, Inc.: 5.2 TCR = 187% of Land drainage contractors BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DeCook Drainage, Inc. safety composite

DeCook Drainage, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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 Drainage, Inc. held a steady TCR band

DeCook Drainage, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 22.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=22.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Byron, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 187% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO Bancroft Contracting…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~11 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bancroft Contracting Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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DeCook Drainage, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DeCook Drainage, Inc. averages 5.2 TCR (187% of the Land drainage contractors BLS benchmark).

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

DeCook Drainage, Inc. TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=22 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where DeCook Drainage, Inc. falls in its industry

932 Land drainage contractors establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 14 Land drainage contractors employers in Minnesota.

DeCook Drainage, Inc. (11 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 DeCook Drainage, Inc.
DeCook Drainage, Inc. (11 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

DeCook Drainage, Inc. has fewer employees than the Land drainage contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 9.3 9.3 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 22.0 22.0 2 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · MN · Byron

932 Land drainage 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Bancroft Contracting Corporation 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Synergy Earth Systems LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ECI Drilling International, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Motz Group 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE K & H Exteriors Inc. dba Stucco 1 11 FTE
STATE-SIZE Frazee Facility 11 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cole Papers Inc Mankato 11 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshall Grain Elevator 11 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 Bedford County Board of Education 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Morgan Hill Store 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Foodservice Shreveport - 0571 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 10275 Interbay 5.2 TCR

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, 2020, 2019. 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.