Excavation contractors · Alabama

Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc

Muscle Shoals, AL · ~57 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc: 2.3 TCR = 84% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc safety composite

Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc: 1.5 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2020

Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc's TCR rose 1.6 from 1.5 in 2019 to 3.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Muscle Shoals, AL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 84% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #20/25
  • PHOTO Illinois Civil Contr…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Illinois Civil Contractors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc averages 2.3 TCR (84% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc TCR series: 2019=1.5 · 2020=3.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alabama alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 25 Excavation contractors employers in Alabama.

Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc (57 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc
Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc (57 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Joe Keenum Excavation & Construction, Inc has more employees than the Excavation contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2020 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2019 1.5 1.5 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · AL · Muscle Shoals

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,418 rated employers in Alabama with headcount on file · 63 employers in Muscle Shoals, AL · 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 Illinois Civil Contractors, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Larry Brown Excavating 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marois Brothers, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR D. Grimm, Inc. 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southeast Division Eufaula Office 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colburn Construction Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald Smith Company, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wing Solar Project 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Lighting - Muscle Shoals 1,616 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAL MUSCLE SHOALS PLANT 1,610 FTE
CITY-NEAR North American Lighting - Alabama 1,488 FTE
CITY-NEAR Constellium Muscle Shoals LLC - Alloys Operations 1,113 FTE
NAT-TCR WA033 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dantzler Jax 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakewood Memory Care 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Prairie Hills at Ottumwa 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Delfingen US - NY 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toll Company 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alden Gardens of Bloomingdale 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Visual Group- Sign Company 57 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.