Highway construction · Indiana
Howard County Highway Department
Kokomo, IN · ~342 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 3.5
- Avg TCR
- 2.8
- Industry avg
- 1
- Fatality
The verdict
Howard County Highway Department runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade D.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 3.5
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2.8
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 1
- worker fatalities on record
Grade compares Howard County Highway Department's OSHA Total Case Rate of 3.5 to the Highway construction BLS benchmark of 2.8 (127% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Howard County Highway Department's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.8 industry benchmark.
Where Howard County Highway Department falls in its industry
4,628 Highway construction establishmentsSafer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.
Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 102 Highway construction employers in Indiana.
Trend analysis for Howard County Highway Department
Between 2017 and 2024, Howard County Highway Department's Total Case Rate improved from 13.5 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 100% decrease across 7 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2018, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 13.5, a spread of 13.5 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 6 reporting years, Howard County Highway Department recorded 12 total injuries and illnesses and 1 fatality. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 12 injuries, 1 illnesses, and 1 fatality shown on this page for Howard County Highway Department are sourced from its own 6 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 237310 - Highway construction.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,016,576 hours worked = 0.00 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Howard County Highway Department (this establishment) | 3.55 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg |
| Road construction industry avg | 2.80 | BLS IIF, NAICS 237310 |
| Indiana state avg (all industries) | 4.53 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Howard County Highway Department to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 4 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 0 illnesses, 1 fatality - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 4 reportable incidents · 4 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 1 reportable incidents · 1 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 5 reportable incidents · 4 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 6.9 | 1.7 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 13.5 | 5.4 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Howard County Highway Department's reported OSHA injury record versus its Highway construction peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 127% of the Highway construction benchmark, Howard County Highway Department reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Highway construction sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.