Excavation contractors · Minnesota

Hjort Excavating Inc

Milaca, MN · ~22 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hjort Excavating Inc runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Hjort Excavating Inc: 4.0 TCR = 144% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hjort Excavating Inc safety composite

Hjort Excavating Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Hjort Excavating Inc: 6.3 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2024

Hjort Excavating Inc's TCR rose 3.5 from 6.3 in 2021 to 9.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 144% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #25/42
  • PHOTO Reding's Gravel & Ex…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reding's Gravel & Excavating Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hjort Excavating Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hjort Excavating Inc averages 4.0 TCR (144% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Hjort Excavating Inc TCR series: 2021=6.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Hjort Excavating Inc falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #25 safest of 42 Excavation contractors employers in Minnesota.

Hjort Excavating Inc (22 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Hjort Excavating Inc
Hjort Excavating Inc (22 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Hjort Excavating 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 9.8 4.9 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · MN · Milaca

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 15 employers in Milaca, 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 Reding's Gravel & Excavating Co. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3C Drilling LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jayar Construction, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillen Corporation 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunrise Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emerald Spring Dairy, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Greenstreak Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dassel 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milaca Public Schools 477 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milaca Public School District #912 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mille Lacs County 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milaca Elim Meadows Healthcare Center 148 FTE
NAT-TCR Life Care Center of Collegedale 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR PHL-ODFL 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Major Custom Cable 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Metropolitan Campus 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Precision Vehicle Logistics - Fort Wayne 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE P Tool & Die Co., Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spokane Medical 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Easterseals Rehabilitation Center of Northwest Alabama 22 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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