Road construction · Montana

Nelcon Inc.

Kalispell, MT · ~75 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelcon Inc. runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Nelcon Inc.: 5.3 TCR = 189% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelcon Inc. safety composite

Nelcon Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Nelcon Inc. held a steady TCR band

Nelcon Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 5.3 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2018=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Kalispell, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 189% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #22/25
  • PHOTO Vecellio & Grogan, I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vecellio & Grogan, Inc._Job # 1000200 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelcon Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelcon Inc. averages 5.3 TCR (189% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Nelcon Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2018=5.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Nelcon Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 25 Road construction employers in Montana.

Nelcon Inc. (75 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Nelcon Inc.
Nelcon Inc. (75 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Nelcon Inc. has more 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
2018 5.3 4.3 5 0 0
2016 5.3 2.6 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MT · Kalispell

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 117 employers in Kalispell, MT · 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 Vecellio & Grogan, Inc._Job # 1000200 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eckles Paving 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Donnelly Construction Inc 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harold Smith & Son, Inc 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office - 01 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kalispell 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUPERVALU DISTRIBUTION CENTER - BILLINGS 32311 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summit Beverage Kalispell 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kalispell Regional Medical Center 2,715 FTE
CITY-NEAR Logan Health Medical Center (formerly Kalispell Regional Medical Center) 2,601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Logan Health (formerly Kalispell Regional Healthcare-System) 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR MTK01, Applied Materials, Semi Tool Main 406 FTE
NAT-TCR RGH Enterprises - Cranbury, NJ 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Radisson Hotel Harrisbur 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR NCVM 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Harold Smith & Son, Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Performance Pipe - Bloomfield, IA 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #30 (Janesville, WI) 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #28 (Kimberly, WI) 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #125 (Freeport, IL) 75 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: 2018, 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.