Excavation contractors · Washington

DeKoster Excavating, Inc.

Lynden, WA · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

DeKoster Excavating, Inc. runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

DeKoster Excavating, Inc.: 2.3 TCR = 83% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DeKoster Excavating, Inc. safety composite

DeKoster Excavating, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

Rising injury rate

DeKoster Excavating, Inc.: 0.0 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

DeKoster Excavating, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.8 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Lynden, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/40
  • PHOTO Russell's Excavating…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Washington employers → · Look up another →

DeKoster Excavating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DeKoster Excavating, Inc. averages 2.3 TCR (83% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

DeKoster Excavating, Inc. TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 2.8

Where DeKoster Excavating, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 40 Excavation contractors employers in Washington.

DeKoster Excavating, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 DeKoster Excavating, Inc.
DeKoster Excavating, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

DeKoster Excavating, Inc. has fewer employees than the Excavation 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 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.3 0.0 1 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · WA · Lynden

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 52 employers in Lynden, WA · 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 Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Noury Construction Co 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Demo Plus Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rasmussen Excavation LLC 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bosma Ag Enterprises 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Shadow Nursery LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trout Lake Farm East Mill 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE D&A Dairy LLC 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lynden Door, Inc. 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maberry Packing LLC 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enfield Farms Inc 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Christian Health Care Center 203 FTE
NAT-TCR Ndx Stern Empire Laboratories 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 017-CLOVIS 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Smithfield Packaging 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fareway Stores, Inc. 597 Creston 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Industrial Tube and Steel Corporation West Chester Branch 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sargent Irrigation 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Contours Corporate 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE VA Beach Store #1303 26 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, 2020. 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.