Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction · Arizona

Kelco Contracting, LLC

Mesa, AZ · ~109 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Kelco Contracting, LLC runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Kelco Contracting, LLC: 2.8 TCR = 101% of Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kelco Contracting, LLC safety composite

Kelco Contracting, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Kelco Contracting, LLC: 2.1 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2019

Kelco Contracting, LLC's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.1 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Mesa, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 101% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #21/36
  • PHOTO T & B Contractors, inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: T & B Contractors, inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kelco Contracting, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kelco Contracting, LLC averages 2.8 TCR (101% of the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS benchmark).

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

Kelco Contracting, LLC TCR series: 2017=2.1 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=3.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Kelco Contracting, LLC falls in its industry

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 36 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat employers in Arizona.

Kelco Contracting, LLC (109 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kelco Contracting, LLC
Kelco Contracting, LLC (109 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Kelco Contracting, LLC has more employees than the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), const median and a lower 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
2019 3.7 3.7 4 0 0
2018 2.7 2.7 3 0 0
2017 2.1 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · AZ · Mesa

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 565 employers in Mesa, AZ · 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 T & B Contractors, inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SJ&L, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Site and Utility, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belair Sitework Services 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Civano Growers 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shamrock Farms 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quartz 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE AF Steel Fabricators LLC 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR AZ001 4,193 FTE
CITY-NEAR AZAPW9668 AZA - RAMP PAX 3,181 FTE
CITY-NEAR 04-290370278-2 1,964 FTE
CITY-NEAR Police Department H210 1,651 FTE
NAT-TCR Walter Payton Power Equipment 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing - Machine Tool 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Springs Village Care Center 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Seminole PP; EGX Gath/Trans 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gates-Columbia MO 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Strauss Veal Feeds, Inc. 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Paltz Family Health Center 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enercon Industries 109 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: 2019, 2018, 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.