Pipeline, gas and oil, construction · West Virginia

Michels Pipeline- WV

Buckhannon, WV · ~167 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Michels Pipeline- WV runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pipeline, gas and oil, construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Michels Pipeline- WV: 0.4 TCR = 14% of Pipeline, gas and oil, construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michels Pipeline- WV safety composite

Michels Pipeline- WV scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Michels Pipeline- WV: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 0.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Michels Pipeline- WV's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237120 · Buckhannon, WV AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 14% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/14
  • PHOTO Bolin Enterprises, I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bolin Enterprises, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Michels Pipeline- WV in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Michels Pipeline- WV averages 0.4 TCR (14% of the Pipeline, gas and oil, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Michels Pipeline- WV TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Michels Pipeline- WV falls in its industry

809 Pipeline, gas and oil, constru establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to West Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 14 Pipeline, gas and oil, constru employers in West Virginia.

Michels Pipeline- WV (167 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate Michels Pipeline- WV
Michels Pipeline- WV (167 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7

Michels Pipeline- WV has more employees than the Pipeline, gas and oil, construction median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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
2019 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237120 · WV · Buckhannon

809 Pipeline, gas and oil, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,269 rated employers in West Virginia with headcount on file · 34 employers in Buckhannon, WV · 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 Bolin Enterprises, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARB, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Timec Oil and Gas, Inc. 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arnegard, ND 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lane Pipeline Construction, LLC. 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sutton OSB 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgewood Summit 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jane Lew 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckhannon EWP 316 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buckhannon 288 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2809 279 FTE
NAT-TCR Houston - 3700 West Sam Houston Parkway South 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Texas District : SVC-San Antonio TX-USA 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NBC Sports Group : NBC Sports Washington 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin 01 Center 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Figueroa Plaza 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Tenet Children'S Hospital Mi E 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Resort Services Inc. 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Florida District : SVC-Miami Fla-USA 167 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.