Backfilling, construction · North Carolina

Kenneth West Inc

Raleigh, NC · ~82 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kenneth West Inc runs at 257% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Backfilling, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Kenneth West Inc: 7.2 TCR = 257% of Backfilling, construction BLS 2.8 · 4y 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 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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: 4.4 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2019

Kenneth West Inc's TCR rose 6.9 from 4.4 in 2016 to 11.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 257% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #69/76
  • PHOTO GEOTEX Construction …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GEOTEX Construction Services (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 7.2 TCR (257% 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: 2016=4.4 · 2017=7.8 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=11.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Kenneth West Inc falls in its industry

1,750 Backfilling, construction establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #69 safest of 76 Backfilling, construction employers in North Carolina.

Kenneth West Inc (82 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 (82 employees, TCR 7.2) 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
2019 11.3 3.1 11 0 0
2018 5.3 3.1 5 0 0
2017 7.8 2.9 8 0 0
2016 4.4 2.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · NC · Raleigh

1,750 Backfilling, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 973 employers in Raleigh, 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 GEOTEX Construction Services 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Runge Enterprises, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Earthmovers Unlimited, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR New England Yankee Construction, LLC 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robert & Wade Glover Farms Inc. 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE SouthEnd Exteriors 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE CT Wilson Construction Company 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE JAMES L CAYTON ACCOCIATES INC 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headway Workforce Solutions 13,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR NC State University 11,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Rex Healthcare 7,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR SECU 6,283 FTE
NAT-TCR The Attraction Services Company 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HAR 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR INEVAN-OPI-EVANSVILLE 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Forest Street Compassionate Care Center 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Camp Marston 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cdsd Whitestone 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cook Paving & Construction Co., Inc. 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE VRC Northfield 82 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, 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.