Road construction · North Dakota

Knife River Corporation - ND

Bismarck, ND · ~193 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Knife River Corporation - ND runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Knife River Corporation - ND: 1.5 TCR = 53% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knife River Corporation - ND safety composite

Knife River Corporation - ND scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

Knife River Corporation - ND: 1.6 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2020

Knife River Corporation - ND's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.6 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Bismarck, ND AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #4/19
  • PHOTO W S Newell & Sons Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~193 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: W S Newell & Sons Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knife River Corporation - ND in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knife River Corporation - ND averages 1.5 TCR (53% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Knife River Corporation - ND TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=2.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Knife River Corporation - ND falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 19 Road construction employers in North Dakota.

Knife River Corporation - ND (193 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Knife River Corporation - ND
Knife River Corporation - ND (193 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Knife River Corporation - ND has more employees than the Road construction 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
2020 2.3 0.6 4 0 0
2019 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2016 1.6 1.0 5 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · ND · Bismarck

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 188 employers in Bismarck, ND · 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 W S Newell & Sons Inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alakona Corp. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Workzone Services 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PDA-Statewide Project and delivery 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Williston 13568 58th State Hwy NW, Williston, ND 58801 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE 685 HORNBACHERS-NORTHPORT (SV 00503 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE S & S Transport Inc 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industrial Builders Inc. 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Bismarck-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,BISMARCK - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 1,715 FTE
CITY-NEAR 33180001-331801 ST ALEXIUS MEDICAL CENTER DBA CHI ST ALE 1,303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bobcat Doosan Bismarck 1,206 FTE
NAT-TCR One Earth Energy 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Belair Road 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plumrose USA 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DDSI Carson III 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE GKN Bowling Green 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Jo Frontier Casino 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSP Corporate Headquarters 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE Global Specialty Fulfillment : BFI7 193 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: 2020, 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.