Excavation contractors · Michigan

Lounsbury Excavating Inc.

Paw Paw, MI · ~72 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lounsbury Excavating Inc. runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Lounsbury Excavating Inc.: 3.5 TCR = 124% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lounsbury Excavating Inc. safety composite

Lounsbury Excavating Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−2.8

2016→2024

Lounsbury Excavating Inc. injury rate improved

Lounsbury Excavating Inc.'s TCR fell 2.8 from 6.0 in 2016 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.0 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Paw Paw, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 124% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #36/55
  • PHOTO Wyatt Contracting
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wyatt Contracting (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lounsbury Excavating Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lounsbury Excavating Inc. averages 3.5 TCR (124% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Lounsbury Excavating Inc. TCR series: 2016=6 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=4 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Lounsbury Excavating Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 55 Excavation contractors employers in Michigan.

Lounsbury Excavating Inc. (72 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Lounsbury Excavating Inc.
Lounsbury Excavating Inc. (72 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Lounsbury Excavating Inc. has more employees than the Excavation contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 3.2 2.1 3 0 0
2023 4.0 2.0 4 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 3 0 0
2021 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2020 2.3 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.7 1.4 2 0 0
2018 7.1 7.1 4 0 0
2017 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2016 6.0 2.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · MI · Paw Paw

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 17 employers in Paw Paw, MI · 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 Wyatt Contracting 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pinnick Inc 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doyle's Work Company, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Driven Grow LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elite Apple Company, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lynn Mayer's Great Lakes Glads, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Navitas House 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Refresco Beverages Paw Paw 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR CCNA-Paw Paw 379 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronson LakeView Hospital 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4439 257 FTE
NAT-TCR Piney Orchard Service Center 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR John Jones Chevrolet Buick Cadillac of Salem, INC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Entrust Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rocky Mountain Instrument Co 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Systems Fab & Machine Inc 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Littrell Lumber Mill, Inc 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri-County Electric Company, Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scot Industries - Centralia 72 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.