Excavation contractors · Michigan

Molon Excavating Inc

Traverse City, MI · ~68 workers · 2 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

Molon Excavating Inc runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Molon Excavating Inc: 3.5 TCR = 126% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Molon Excavating Inc safety composite

Molon Excavating Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Molon Excavating Inc: 2.4 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2023

Molon Excavating Inc's TCR rose 2.2 from 2.4 in 2022 to 4.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Traverse City, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 126% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #37/55
  • PHOTO C W Strittmatter LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C W Strittmatter LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Molon Excavating Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Molon Excavating Inc averages 3.5 TCR (126% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Molon Excavating Inc TCR series: 2022=2.4 · 2023=4.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Molon Excavating Inc falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #37 safest of 55 Excavation contractors employers in Michigan.

Molon Excavating Inc (68 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 Molon Excavating Inc
Molon Excavating Inc (68 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Molon 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
2023 4.6 4.6 4 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · MI · Traverse City

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 197 employers in Traverse City, 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 C W Strittmatter LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR D.A. McCosker Construction 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sargent Corporation - New England Operations 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mark Haynes Construction, Inc. 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Lansing 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Detroit Thermal 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Erhardt Construction 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1001 - BELFOR Livonia MI 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Medical Center 3,845 FTE
CITY-NEAR Munson Healthcare 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College 705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwestern Michigan College - 28999 569 FTE
NAT-TCR ReSource Colorado 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Electrical Distributors (4562) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago GPP Novolex Plant 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR County Market #224 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meaden Precision Machined Products Company 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE McKenzie Living Eugene 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Kentucky Hauling 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of Chaplin 68 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, 2022. 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.