Excavation contractors · Wisconsin

KES Excavating. LLC.

Hobart, WI · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KES Excavating. LLC. runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

KES Excavating. LLC.: 5.3 TCR = 188% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KES Excavating. LLC. safety composite

KES Excavating. LLC. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−10.5

2023→2024

KES Excavating. LLC. injury rate improved

KES Excavating. LLC.'s TCR fell 10.5 from 10.5 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=10.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Hobart, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 188% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/33
  • PHOTO M & O Construction C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: M & O Construction Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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KES Excavating. LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KES Excavating. LLC. averages 5.3 TCR (188% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

KES Excavating. LLC. TCR series: 2023=10.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where KES Excavating. LLC. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 33 Excavation contractors employers in Wisconsin.

KES Excavating. LLC. (47 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 KES Excavating. LLC.
KES Excavating. LLC. (47 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

KES Excavating. LLC. has fewer employees than the Excavation contractors 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 10.5 5.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · WI · Hobart

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 8 employers in Hobart, 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 M & O Construction Co., Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Engineered Demolition, Inc. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hershey Excavating, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The LandTek Group, Inc 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Calf Source, LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE URUS Distribution Center 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Bend Service Center 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Contract Operations, Inc. 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMTRO LLC 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Green Bay, WI Facility 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMT International 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR SCAL Hobart, LLC dba Emerald Bay Retirement Community 108 FTE
NAT-TCR Simplex Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR IND01 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR RE Carroll Management 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Corrosion Resistance, LTD 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seville,OH - 306 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Queeney Enterprises 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE I Auman Machine Co Inc 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wells Rural Electric Co 47 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. 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.