Backfilling, construction · North Carolina

Kenneth West Inc

Garner, NC · ~91 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kenneth West Inc runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Backfilling, construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Kenneth West Inc: 4.7 TCR = 167% of Backfilling, construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kenneth West Inc safety composite

Kenneth West Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

Kenneth West Inc: 2.1 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.2× in 2024

Kenneth West Inc's TCR rose 3.5 from 2.1 in 2020 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Garner, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 167% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #64/76
  • PHOTO Chandler Demolition
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chandler Demolition (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kenneth West Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kenneth West Inc averages 4.7 TCR (167% of the Backfilling, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Kenneth West Inc TCR series: 2020=2.1 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Kenneth West Inc falls in its industry

1,750 Backfilling, construction establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 76 Backfilling, construction employers in North Carolina.

Kenneth West Inc (91 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kenneth West Inc
Kenneth West Inc (91 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Kenneth West Inc has more employees than the Backfilling, construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 5.6 0.9 6 0 0
2023 3.7 0.0 4 0 0
2022 2.9 0.0 3 0 0
2021 9.1 1.8 10 0 0
2020 2.1 1.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · NC · Garner

1,750 Backfilling, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 139 employers in Garner, NC · 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 Chandler Demolition 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR McDowell NW Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Downrite Engineering Corp. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR DeWind Wells & Dewatering Inc. 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tri-hishtil, Llc 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brother Construction LLC 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Triple-R Electric, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRS Sesco 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - RDU1 4,707 FTE
CITY-NEAR Overland Contracting Inc. 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR PBV-Garner 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR Region 056 506 FTE
NAT-TCR Brown Distributing Company, LTD 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Thumb Electric Cooperative of Michigan 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Roof Services A Tecta America Company LLC Richmond unit 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TXD082 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Appleton Location 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Clara City Care Center 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Paul 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Service Slicing, LLC 91 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. 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.