Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction · Nebraska

Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co.

Exeter, NE · ~86 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co.: 3.2 TCR = 113% of Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. safety composite

Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.1

2016→2024

Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. injury rate improved

Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co.'s TCR fell 2.1 from 5.4 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.4 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Exeter, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 113% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #7/17
  • PHOTO LaTour Construction …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LaTour Construction Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. averages 3.2 TCR (113% of the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS benchmark).

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

Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=2 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. falls in its industry

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 17 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat employers in Nebraska.

Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. (86 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co.
Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. (86 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Horizontal Boring & Tunneling Co. has more employees than the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), const median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 3.3 1.7 4 0 0
2023 2.7 0.0 3 0 0
2022 6.8 0.0 7 0 0
2021 5.1 0.0 5 0 0
2020 2.0 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.2 1.1 3 0 0
2016 5.4 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · NE · Exeter

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 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 LaTour Construction Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crow River Construction LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swengel-Robbins Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moss Utilities 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daniels Produce, LLC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scott Enterprises 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pierson Wireless Corp. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hydraulics- Lyman 86 FTE
NAT-TCR Mg Uvalde 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Children's Hospital Colorado - North Campus 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bloomfield Manufacturing Co., Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Manufacturing - Farmers Branch 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rite-Way Plumbing & Heating Inc 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poseidon Barge - Berne 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trividia Health Inc - 2400 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pioneer College Caterers, Inc. - Unit 043/Indiana Wesleyan University 86 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.