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

Knive River - Salem Division

Name: Knive River - Salem Division Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Tangent, OR · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.1
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Knive River - Salem Division runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Knive River - Salem Division: 1.1 TCR = 39% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knive River - Salem Division safety composite

Knive River - Salem Division scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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).

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Knive River - Salem Division: 0.0 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Knive River - Salem Division's TCR rose 2.2 from 0.0 in 2021 to 2.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Tangent, OR AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 39% of ind

DART 2.2 DART
RANK #9/135
PHOTO Corporate Building
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corporate Building (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.1
Corporate Buil

1.1
M A Beech Corp

1.1
Coastal Contra

1.1
White Salmon

1.1

What this shows Knive River - Salem Division averages 1.1 TCR (39% of the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS benchmark).

Knive River - Salem Division TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=2.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Knive River - Salem Division falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 135 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Oregon.

Knive River - Salem Division (42 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Knive River - Salem Division has fewer 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	2.2	2.2	1	0	0
2021	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · OR · Tangent

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 26 employers in Tangent, OR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Corporate Building	PHOENIX, AZ	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	M A Beech Corporation	PITTSBURGH, PA	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Coastal Contractors, LLC	BATON ROUGE, LA	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	White Salmon	WHITE SALMON, WA	1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Kiyokawa Family Orchards	PARKDALE	42 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Highland Meadow Nursery	MOLALLA	42 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ZX Ranch - Paisley	PAISLEY	42 FTE
STATE-SIZE	GREENUP ENTERPRISES, INC.	ESTACADA	42 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KNIFE RIVER - TANGENT DIVISION	Tangent	203 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Betaseed Inc - Tangent	Tangent	114 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KNIFE RIVER - PRESTRESS DIVISION HARRISBURG	Tangent	88 FTE
CITY-NEAR	KNIFE RIVER - PRESTRESS DIVISION SPOKANE	Tangent	85 FTE
NAT-TCR	Phelps Construction Group LLC	Boonton, NJ	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Torrington Main Street Market	Scottsbluff, NE	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Trego/Dugan Aviation Inc	North Platte, NE	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Childers Oil Contracting	Whitesburg, KY	1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Pacific Seafood-Kodiak, LLC dba Island Fish Co.	Kodiak, AK	42 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Blachford Enterprises	Kings Mountain, NC	42 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Alproem Engineering Contractors Corp/Lilly Del Caribe	Carolina, PR	42 FTE
NAT-SIZE	HMWRI	St. Joseph, MO	42 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, 2021. 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.