Crane rental with operator · Ohio

Howard Bowers Contracting

Wintersville, OH · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard Bowers Contracting runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Crane rental with operator workplace, earning a grade A.

Howard Bowers Contracting: 1.1 TCR = 41% of Crane rental with operator BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard Bowers Contracting safety composite

Howard Bowers Contracting scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−4.5

2016→2019

Howard Bowers Contracting injury rate improved

Howard Bowers Contracting's TCR fell 4.5 from 4.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Wintersville, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 41% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/64
  • PHOTO Chenango Sports, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chenango Sports, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howard Bowers Contracting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard Bowers Contracting averages 1.1 TCR (41% of the Crane rental with operator BLS benchmark).

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

Howard Bowers Contracting TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Howard Bowers Contracting falls in its industry

1,634 Crane rental with operator establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 64 Crane rental with operator employers in Ohio.

Howard Bowers Contracting (25 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Howard Bowers Contracting
Howard Bowers Contracting (25 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Howard Bowers Contracting has fewer employees than the Crane rental with operator median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.5 4.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · OH · Wintersville

1,634 Crane rental with operator employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 17 employers in Wintersville, OH · 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 Chenango Sports, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BrandSafway, LLC - Holly Frontier Refinery - El Dorado 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABC Cutting Contractors, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPW Environmental Services, Inc. - Cardinal Operating Company 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rittman Orchards 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Convoy Dairy LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kalmbach Swine Management 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nature Pure Farm 2 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 7017 945 FTE
CITY-NEAR 7017 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR 016-00963 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR OH-Wintersville-Wal Mart 107 FTE
NAT-TCR Dimension Design 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Roanoke Office 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockland 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR South Florida Packers, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Martinsburg 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prevost - Jacksonville, FL 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaman's Art Shopees, Inc. LLF-87 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avoca Bioprocessing Corp. / Avoca, Inc. 25 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.