Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction · Texas

Knife River Corporation South Waco

Waco, TX · ~228 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knife River Corporation South Waco runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Knife River Corporation South Waco: 2.0 TCR = 72% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knife River Corporation South Waco safety composite

Knife River Corporation South Waco scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−0.4

2021→2023

Knife River Corporation South Waco injury rate improved

Knife River Corporation South Waco's TCR fell 0.4 from 1.8 in 2021 to 1.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.8 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Waco, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #142/286
  • PHOTO Midlantic Marking Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~228 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midlantic Marking Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knife River Corporation South Waco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knife River Corporation South Waco averages 2.0 TCR (72% of the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Knife River Corporation South Waco TCR series: 2021=1.8 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=1.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Knife River Corporation South Waco falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #142 safest of 286 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Texas.

Knife River Corporation South Waco (228 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 South Waco
Knife River Corporation South Waco (228 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Knife River Corporation South Waco has more employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge 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
2023 1.4 0.5 3 0 0
2022 2.9 1.9 6 0 0
2021 1.8 1.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · TX · Waco

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 314 employers in Waco, TX · 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 Midlantic Marking Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tutor Perini - Division 20 Portal Widening Project 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Watson Construction Company,LLC 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Aspen Utility Company, LLC 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nelson Bros. Ready Mix, Ltd. 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supreme Roofing, LP 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beard Integrated Systems 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest 1,512 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - AUS3 1,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-TXWAC1 1,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR L3Harris AS IAS Waco 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Reading Pa Plant 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Orangeburg Sc Plant 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Machado Construction 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 55619 Univ of Alabama 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aquatic Co. South Boston 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE McGregor PACE 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suffield Manor Incorporated 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America : Sacramento 228 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.