Fence installation (except electronic containment fencing for pets) · Illinois

K Brothers Fence, INC

Mokena, IL · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K Brothers Fence, INC runs at 370% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fence installation (except electronic containment fencing for pets) workplace, earning a grade F.

K Brothers Fence, INC: 10.3 TCR = 370% of Fence installation (except electronic containment fencing for pets) BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K Brothers Fence, INC safety composite

K Brothers Fence, INC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

K Brothers Fence, INC: 6.2 → 14.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 14.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2020

K Brothers Fence, INC's TCR rose 8.4 from 6.2 in 2017 to 14.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Mokena, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 370% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #57/59
  • PHOTO Keith Zars Pools
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Keith Zars Pools (0.0 TCR gap)

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K Brothers Fence, INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K Brothers Fence, INC averages 10.3 TCR (370% of the Fence installation (except electronic containment fencing for pets) BLS benchmark).

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

K Brothers Fence, INC TCR series: 2017=6.2 · 2020=14.6 · BLS 2.8

Where K Brothers Fence, INC falls in its industry

1,634 Fence installation (except ele establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 59 Fence installation (except ele employers in Illinois.

K Brothers Fence, INC (28 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate K Brothers Fence, INC
K Brothers Fence, INC (28 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

K Brothers Fence, INC has fewer employees than the Fence installation (except electronic co median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 14.6 7.3 4 0 0
2017 6.2 3.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · IL · Mokena

1,634 Fence installation (except electronic containment fencing for pets) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 47 employers in Mokena, IL · 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 Keith Zars Pools 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leacock Paving LLC 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR All Steel Fence, Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR C&W Construction Specialties 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meijer273 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR Presence Life Connections 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR 273 - Mokena 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR Provisur Technologies Mokena 228 FTE
NAT-TCR 1360 Lkq Hunts Point Auto & Keystone-Bronx 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Redding Distributing Company 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stow-Glen Retirement Village 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2786 - Indianapolis East 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE LaMarra Main Office 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yeargin Potter Smith Construction Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chillicothe Save A Lot# 23555 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Uhrichsville Save A Lot #24400 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: 2020, 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.