Excavation contractors · Tennessee

Horst Brothers Construction, LLC

Clarkrange, TN · ~41 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

Horst Brothers Construction, LLC runs at 144% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Horst Brothers Construction, LLC: 4.0 TCR = 144% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Horst Brothers Construction, LLC safety composite

Horst Brothers Construction, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Horst Brothers Construction, LLC: 7.4 → 217.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 217.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Horst Brothers Construction, LLC's TCR rose 210.2 from 7.4 in 2016 to 217.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Clarkrange, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 144% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/37
  • PHOTO Office
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Horst Brothers Construction, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Horst Brothers Construction, LLC 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

Horst Brothers Construction, LLC TCR series: 2016=7.4 · 2017=2.9 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=217.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Horst Brothers Construction, LLC 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 Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 37 Excavation contractors employers in Tennessee.

Horst Brothers Construction, LLC (41 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 Horst Brothers Construction, LLC
Horst Brothers Construction, LLC (41 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Horst Brothers Construction, LLC 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
2019 217.6 0.0 2 0 0
2018 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2017 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2016 7.4 7.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · TN · Clarkrange

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee 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 Office 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eddie Axner Construction, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Earth Services & Abatement 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guettler Brothers Equipment, LLC 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gallatin Department of Electricity 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thompson Construction Group Inc BAE Kingsport 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ronald Franks Construction Company, LLC 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Contracting Services, Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-TCR EKF Diagnostics 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR #189 Art Van Batavia 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR #55 Art Van Holland 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR #603 Art Van Flooring Warren 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE TrueNorth Steel 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE TD Fischer Group Inc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Er-Hhh1-Spring Arbor Raleigh 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kn-Hhh1-Spring Arbor Kinston 41 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.