Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction · Nebraska

Obrist & Company

Columbus, NE · ~25 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Obrist & Company runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Obrist & Company: 1.0 TCR = 37% of Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Obrist & Company safety composite

Obrist & Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Obrist & Company held a steady TCR band

Obrist & Company's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Columbus, NE AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 37% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/17
  • PHOTO D.B. Bentley Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D.B. Bentley Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Obrist & Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Obrist & Company averages 1.0 TCR (37% of the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS benchmark).

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

Obrist & Company TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Obrist & Company falls in its industry

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 17 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat employers in Nebraska.

Obrist & Company (25 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Obrist & Company
Obrist & Company (25 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Obrist & Company has fewer employees than the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), const median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.2 7.2 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · NE · Columbus

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 91 employers in Columbus, NE · 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 D.B. Bentley Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PM Construction & Rehab LLC dba IPR - South Central 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Durr Heavy Construction 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kelpe Contracting, Inc. 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Columbus 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE MPM Dairy East LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Site 2 NE 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waldo Farms Nebraska 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Columbus West 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Pharmaceutical Systems 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbus Community Hospital 833 FTE
CITY-NEAR BD Columbus East 762 FTE
NAT-TCR Nucor (Vulcraft Division) 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Expert Drywall Systems Inc 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NC Yakima 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CEC Steel 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rittman Orchards 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sprint Electrical Service, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3895 Sun Valley 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mel Lanzer Company 25 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. 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.