Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) · Texas

Layne Christensen Company

The Woodlands, TX · ~558 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Layne Christensen Company runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) workplace, earning a grade B.

Layne Christensen Company: 1.5 TCR = 55% of Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Layne Christensen Company safety composite

Layne Christensen Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−1.0

2023→2024

Layne Christensen Company injury rate improved

Layne Christensen Company's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.0 in 2023 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.0 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · The Woodlands, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #75/194
  • PHOTO BELL CONTRACTORS, INC.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~558 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BELL CONTRACTORS, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Layne Christensen Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Layne Christensen Company averages 1.5 TCR (55% of the Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) BLS benchmark).

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

Layne Christensen Company TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=1 · BLS 2.8

Where Layne Christensen Company falls in its industry

1,614 Water well drilling, digging, establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #75 safest of 194 Water well drilling, digging, employers in Texas.

Layne Christensen Company (558 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Layne Christensen Company
Layne Christensen Company (558 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Layne Christensen Company has more employees than the Water well drilling, digging, boring or 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
2024 1.0 0.2 6 0 0
2023 2.0 1.4 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · TX · The Woodlands

1,614 Water well drilling, digging, boring or sinking (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 160 employers in The Woodlands, 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 BELL CONTRACTORS, INC. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCGUIRE AND HESTER 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Insituform Technologies LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cumberland Pipeline 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE RKM Utility Services, Inc. 558 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ceres Houston 558 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6005 558 FTE
STATE-SIZE Independence Contract Drilling 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR Strike 3,372 FTE
CITY-NEAR MedData, Inc. 2,438 FTE
CITY-NEAR Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital 2,185 FTE
CITY-NEAR W W Webber LLC 1,948 FTE
NAT-TCR Mechanical Engineering & Construction Corporation-VA 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Utility Lines Construction Services, LLC 110 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Joseph W. Bommarito Construction Co., Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ETC (Middleton) 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Luke's Des Peres Hospital 558 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mahaska County Hospital 558 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Holland Plant 558 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cornerstone Management 558 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.