Road construction · Kansas

LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc.

Parsons, KS · ~17 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc. runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade F.

LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc.: 6.8 TCR = 243% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc. safety composite

LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc.: 3.6 → 14.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc.'s TCR rose 11.1 from 3.6 in 2016 to 14.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Parsons, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 243% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #39/49
  • PHOTO T.J. Campbell Constr…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: T.J. Campbell Construction Co. (0.0 TCR gap)

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LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc. averages 6.8 TCR (243% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2022=15.6 · 2023=14.7 · BLS 2.8

Where LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 49 Road construction employers in Kansas.

LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc. (17 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc.
LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc. (17 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Road construction median and a higher 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 14.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 15.6 15.6 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · KS · Parsons

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 37 employers in Parsons, KS · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR T.J. Campbell Construction Co. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vecellio & Grogan-Project #100-0168 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van Buren County Road Commission 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota Department of Transportation District 1 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE PARSONS SC 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Desco Systems of Arkansas, Inc. 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE WAG SERVICES, INC. -GC 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE 472 ABC Supply Co., Inc 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Labette Health 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR PAR-ODFL 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ruskin Company 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR 368 236 FTE
NAT-TCR Engineered Materials Solutions Hamburg 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Holy Family Hospital - Methuen 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodland 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ASM Recycling 6.8 TCR

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, 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.