Residential for-sale builders · Texas

KB Home Austin

Austin, TX · ~149 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KB Home Austin runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Residential for-sale builders workplace, earning a grade A.

KB Home Austin: 1.3 TCR = 35% of Residential for-sale builders BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KB Home Austin safety composite

KB Home Austin scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−2.7

2016→2023

KB Home Austin injury rate improved

KB Home Austin's TCR fell 2.7 from 4.0 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=1.3 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236117 · Austin, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #30/63
  • PHOTO Lennar - Palm Atlantic
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~149 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lennar - Palm Atlantic (0.0 TCR gap)

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KB Home Austin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KB Home Austin averages 1.3 TCR (35% of the Residential for-sale builders BLS benchmark).

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

KB Home Austin TCR series: 2016=4 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.3 · 2021=0 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 3.8

Where KB Home Austin falls in its industry

341 Residential for-sale builders establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 63 Residential for-sale builders employers in Texas.

KB Home Austin (149 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate KB Home Austin
KB Home Austin (149 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.7

KB Home Austin has more employees than the Residential for-sale builders median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2023 1.3 0.7 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.3 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.0 1.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236117 · TX · Austin

341 Residential for-sale builders employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, TX · 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 Lennar - Palm Atlantic 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DAPHNE AL 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smith Douglas Atlanta 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AU2DIV-PH-AUSTIN 2 DIVISION 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village farms of Texas 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kenedy 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE HCI01-Baytown 149 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trendmaker Homes 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR Kludt Brothers Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith Douglas Atlanta 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ramar Transportation Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dorado Services, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carrollton 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norway Manufacturing 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE R&R Construction, INC. @ Westlake Chemical 149 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steele Hill Resort 149 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: 2023, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.