Remodeling and renovating general contractors, residential · Illinois

E.A. Knight Construction, Inc.

Carterville, IL · ~26 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

E.A. Knight Construction, Inc. runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Remodeling and renovating general contractors, residential workplace, earning a grade D.

E.A. Knight Construction, Inc.: 7.0 TCR = 184% of Remodeling and renovating general contractors, residential BLS 3.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

E.A. Knight Construction, Inc. safety composite

E.A. Knight Construction, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

E.A. Knight Construction, Inc.: 5.2 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

E.A. Knight Construction, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.6 from 5.2 in 2019 to 8.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236118 · Carterville, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 184% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #23/31
  • PHOTO Office 60
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Office 60 (0.0 TCR gap)

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E.A. Knight Construction, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows E.A. Knight Construction, Inc. averages 7.0 TCR (184% of the Remodeling and renovating general contractors, residential BLS benchmark).

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

E.A. Knight Construction, Inc. TCR series: 2019=5.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=9.5 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 3.8

Where E.A. Knight Construction, Inc. falls in its industry

698 Remodeling and renovating gene establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 31 Remodeling and renovating gene employers in Illinois.

E.A. Knight Construction, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate E.A. Knight Construction, Inc.
E.A. Knight Construction, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 6.1

E.A. Knight Construction, Inc. has fewer employees than the Remodeling and renovating general contra median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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 8.7 4.4 2 0 0
2023 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 9.5 4.7 2 0 0
2021 14.1 4.7 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.2 5.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236118 · IL · Carterville

698 Remodeling and renovating general contractors, residential employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 9 employers in Carterville, IL · 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 Office 60 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PHRG NJ 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TIGER CONSTRUCTION, INC. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blackhawk Construction, LLC 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rock River - Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill 'N Dale Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Generation 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR John A. Logan College 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cancer Center 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reflections Memory Care - Herrin 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koerner Distributor, Inc. - Carterville 42 FTE
NAT-TCR Coolville Go-Mart 116 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hulcher Services Inc - Bloomington 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson and Maddox Construction Co., Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Avivo - 1 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Day Wholesale, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crosskeys 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaver Valley Alloy Foundry Company 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisville 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.