Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground · Wisconsin

Ken Becker & Sons Inc

Lannon, WI · ~34 workers · 6 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

Ken Becker & Sons Inc runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade F.

Ken Becker & Sons Inc: 7.4 TCR = 265% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ken Becker & Sons Inc safety composite

Ken Becker & Sons Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2016→2024

Ken Becker & Sons Inc injury rate improved

Ken Becker & Sons Inc's TCR fell 3.5 from 8.0 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 13.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.0 · 2017=13.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=7.6 · 2022=11.3 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Lannon, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 265% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #31/40
  • PHOTO NSK20 - North Sky - …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NSK20 - North Sky - Tacoma (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ken Becker & Sons Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ken Becker & Sons Inc averages 7.4 TCR (265% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

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

Ken Becker & Sons Inc TCR series: 2016=8 · 2017=13.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.6 · 2022=11.3 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Ken Becker & Sons Inc falls in its industry

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 40 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Wisconsin.

Ken Becker & Sons Inc (34 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ken Becker & Sons Inc
Ken Becker & Sons Inc (34 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Ken Becker & Sons Inc has fewer employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 11.3 0.0 4 0 0
2021 7.6 7.6 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 13.2 8.8 6 0 0
2016 8.0 5.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · WI · Lannon

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 14 employers in Lannon, WI · 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 NSK20 - North Sky - Tacoma 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Illinois Electrical Coop 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR VCI:VC070 - VC070-VCI - Sun Valley, CA 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tilson Technology Management, Inc. East Hartford 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Drumlin Dairy, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Merrillan East Coating 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayfront Steam Plant 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayfront Steam Plant-5D 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR ChemRite CoPac, Inc 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR RAMS CONTRACTING, LTD 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Sons Paving Co 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aluminum Foundry of Wisconsin LLC 53 FTE
NAT-TCR Fuquay 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CLARO / PRT - Aguadilla CO (Cuesta Vieja) 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR RET-SRE Store 21 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR UPMC Mercy 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookfield Renewable - Safe Harbor 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sterling - Lowell, MA 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Missouri Pressed Metals, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE At Home Stores #10 34 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.