Culverts, highway, road and street, construction · Virginia

J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc.

Fredericksurg, VA · ~35 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc. runs at 518% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Culverts, highway, road and street, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc.: 14.5 TCR = 518% of Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc. safety composite

J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−30.4

2019→2024

J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc. injury rate improved

J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc.'s TCR fell 30.4 from 30.4 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 30.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=30.4 · 2020=10.6 · 2021=30.3 · 2022=11.9 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Fredericksurg, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.5 · 518% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #136/141
  • PHOTO Public Services Depa…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Services Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc. averages 14.5 TCR (518% of the Culverts, highway, road and street, construction BLS benchmark).

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

J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc. TCR series: 2019=30.4 · 2020=10.6 · 2021=30.3 · 2022=11.9 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Culverts, highway, road and st establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #136 safest of 141 Culverts, highway, road and st employers in Virginia.

J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc.
J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

J.L. Kent & Sons, Inc. has fewer employees than the Culverts, highway, road and street, cons median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 11.9 11.9 2 1 0
2021 30.3 3.8 8 0 0
2020 10.6 7.1 2 1 0
2019 30.4 13.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · VA · Fredericksurg

4,078 Culverts, highway, road and street, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia 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 Public Services Department 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BEDFORD CO - CNS182 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maintenance Bureau - District 2 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCracken County Road Department 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE R S Coleman Lumber Company Inc 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clinch River 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fieldale Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shenandoah Division 35 FTE
NAT-TCR MNM014 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Taisuco America Corporation 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tithonus Lancaster 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Advance Industrial Manufacturing 14.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Illing Packaging - Norcross 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scrap It Lowell 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE SBS Dallas 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westfield Plant 35 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, 2022, 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.