Housing construction, for-sale builder · Ohio

J. Bowers Construction

Akron, OH · ~28 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J. Bowers Construction runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Housing construction, for-sale builder workplace, earning a grade F.

J. Bowers Construction: 8.5 TCR = 224% of Housing construction, for-sale builder BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J. Bowers Construction safety composite

J. Bowers Construction scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

J. Bowers Construction: 0.0 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2019

J. Bowers Construction's TCR rose 8.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 8.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236117 · Akron, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 224% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO John Mourier Constru…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: John Mourier Construction, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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J. Bowers Construction in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J. Bowers Construction averages 8.5 TCR (224% of the Housing construction, for-sale builder BLS benchmark).

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

J. Bowers Construction TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=17.5 · 2019=8.1 · BLS 3.8

Where J. Bowers Construction falls in its industry

341 Housing construction, for-sale establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Housing construction, for-sale employers in Ohio.

J. Bowers Construction (28 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate J. Bowers Construction
J. Bowers Construction (28 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.7

J. Bowers Construction has fewer employees than the Housing construction, for-sale builder median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 8.1 8.1 1 0 0
2018 17.5 17.5 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236117 · OH · Akron

341 Housing construction, for-sale builder employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 512 employers in Akron, 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 John Mourier Construction, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5970_14524 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stonehill Builders, LLC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 372-DREES-JACKSONVILLE 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE H and M Building 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fine Oak Farm 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Canton Hatchery 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Small's Sand & Gravel, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron 6,746 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron Children's Hospital 6,060 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summa Health - Akron City 4,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR Akron General Medical Center 4,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Danzer Vener America Darlington 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kirk Gross Company 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Meadows Mechanical 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon Transportation Services : MSP5 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Beaver Machine, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arrow Pest Control 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE JohnsonMfg 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carfdish Machine Works 28 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. 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.