Cellular phone tower construction · Montana

JKL Associates, Inc

Billings, MT · ~77 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

JKL Associates, Inc runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cellular phone tower construction workplace, earning a grade D.

JKL Associates, Inc: 4.8 TCR = 173% of Cellular phone tower construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JKL Associates, Inc safety composite

JKL Associates, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

−2.9

2019→2024

JKL Associates, Inc injury rate improved

JKL Associates, Inc's TCR fell 2.9 from 7.8 in 2019 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.8 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=2.8 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Billings, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 173% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO HWPOWER, INC.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HWPOWER, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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JKL Associates, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JKL Associates, Inc averages 4.8 TCR (173% of the Cellular phone tower construction BLS benchmark).

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

JKL Associates, Inc TCR series: 2019=7.8 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=2.8 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=5 · BLS 2.8

Where JKL Associates, Inc falls in its industry

1,605 Cellular phone tower construct establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Cellular phone tower construct employers in Montana.

JKL Associates, Inc (77 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate JKL Associates, Inc
JKL Associates, Inc (77 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

JKL Associates, Inc has more employees than the Cellular phone tower construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 5.0 5.0 4 0 0
2023 4.8 4.8 4 0 0
2021 2.8 0.0 2 0 0
2020 3.9 3.9 3 0 0
2019 7.8 2.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · MT · Billings

1,605 Cellular phone tower construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 327 employers in Billings, MT · 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 HWPOWER, INC. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Extreme Excavating 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor Tele-Communications, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ANASH - Asheville- NC 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MAC LTT Manufacturing, Inc. 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE DC15 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Helena 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4054-ABS-0030-0030-00630 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Billings Clinic Hospital 2,366 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Vincent Healthcare 1,860 FTE
CITY-NEAR Billings Clinic Downtown Campus 1,223 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Lutheran Ministries 651 FTE
NAT-TCR Allied Waste Systems, Inc 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AB Mauri Wilsonville 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Protect Environmental- Louisville 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Deer Crest 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Taylor Steel, Inc. 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reliable Contracting & Equipment & Co 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pate Construction Company , Inc 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willows Post Acute 77 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.