Oil field road construction · Indiana

Niblock Excavating, Inc.

Bristol, IN · ~97 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Niblock Excavating, Inc. runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Oil field road construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Niblock Excavating, Inc.: 7.0 TCR = 251% of Oil field road construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Niblock Excavating, Inc. safety composite

Niblock Excavating, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Niblock Excavating, Inc.: 6.4 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2021

Niblock Excavating, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.8 from 6.4 in 2016 to 9.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Bristol, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 251% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #81/95
  • PHOTO Shafer Contracting C…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Niblock Excavating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Niblock Excavating, Inc. averages 7.0 TCR (251% of the Oil field road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Niblock Excavating, Inc. TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2017=7.6 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=9.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Niblock Excavating, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Oil field road construction establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #81 safest of 95 Oil field road construction employers in Indiana.

Niblock Excavating, Inc. (97 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Niblock Excavating, Inc.
Niblock Excavating, Inc. (97 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Niblock Excavating, Inc. has more employees than the Oil field 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
2021 9.2 3.1 7 2 0
2020 9.2 3.1 8 1 0
2019 3.8 1.0 4 0 0
2018 5.9 2.0 6 0 0
2017 7.6 1.1 7 0 0
2016 6.4 6.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IN · Bristol

4,078 Oil field road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 50 employers in Bristol, IN · 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 Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sprouls Construction, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KNIVE RIVER - MOLALLA DIVISION 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Pangere Corporation 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE LEM Indianapolis 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE E & B PAVING LLC - Bloomington 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Browning Chapman, LLC 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Utilimaster 1,453 FTE
CITY-NEAR THE SHYFT GROUP 1,089 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spartan Motors DBA Utilimaster 883 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monogram Comfort Foods LLC 444 FTE
NAT-TCR 127557-Rome Po 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #037 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Towers Homecare and Rehabilitation 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cornhusker Insulation #780 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 501028-Burlington Vt P&Dc 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE 416637-Pit-Mcknight Br 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Health & Social Services (8) 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE HealthBridge Post Acute Rehabilitation 97 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.