Road construction · Michigan

Kalkaska County Road Commission

Kalkaska, MI · ~32 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kalkaska County Road Commission runs at 264% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Kalkaska County Road Commission: 7.4 TCR = 264% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kalkaska County Road Commission safety composite

Kalkaska County Road Commission scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−5.4

2017→2024

Kalkaska County Road Commission injury rate improved

Kalkaska County Road Commission's TCR fell 5.4 from 9.1 in 2017 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 17.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.1 · 2018=14.6 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=17.5 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Kalkaska, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 264% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #90/139
  • PHOTO Iowa Civil Contracti…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Iowa Civil Contracting, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kalkaska County Road Commission in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kalkaska County Road Commission averages 7.4 TCR (264% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Kalkaska County Road Commission TCR series: 2017=9.1 · 2018=14.6 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=17.5 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=3 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Kalkaska County Road Commission falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #90 safest of 139 Road construction employers in Michigan.

Kalkaska County Road Commission (32 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 Kalkaska County Road Commission
Kalkaska County Road Commission (32 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Kalkaska County Road Commission has fewer employees than the Road construction 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 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2021 6.5 4.3 3 0 0
2020 17.5 5.8 5 1 0
2019 4.7 0.0 0 1 0
2018 14.6 0.0 3 0 0
2017 9.1 9.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MI · Kalkaska

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 21 employers in Kalkaska, MI · 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 Iowa Civil Contracting, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison County Secondary Roads 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Castek, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Souza Engineering Contracting Inc. dba Souza Construction 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 6801_15743 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Soil Dairy 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berrybrook 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Tawas 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kalkaska Memorial Health Center 508 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern A-1 Services - All Locations 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern A-1 Services - Kalkaska 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wayne Wire Cloth Products 94 FTE
NAT-TCR Madison GA 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Medical Associates Platteville 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Redding 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Herbruck's of Pennsylvania, LLC 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unipharm, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Annapolis, MD 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masimo Semiconductor 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Santa Cruz Green Builders 32 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.