Drilling water wells (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) · Indiana

Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main

Kokomo, IN · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main runs at 363% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drilling water wells (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) workplace, earning a grade F.

Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main: 10.2 TCR = 363% of Drilling water wells (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main safety composite

Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main: 6.9 → 13.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2023

Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main's TCR rose 6.4 from 6.9 in 2022 to 13.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Kokomo, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 363% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #25/25
  • PHOTO S.U.R. Construction …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S.U.R. Construction West, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main averages 10.2 TCR (363% of the Drilling water wells (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) BLS benchmark).

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

Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main TCR series: 2022=6.9 · 2023=13.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main falls in its industry

1,614 Drilling water wells (except w establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #25 safest of 25 Drilling water wells (except w employers in Indiana.

Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main (38 employees, TCR 10.2) 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 Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main
Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main (38 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ortman Drilling, Inc. Main has fewer employees than the Drilling water wells (except water intak 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
2023 13.4 4.5 6 0 0
2022 6.9 6.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · IN · Kokomo

1,614 Drilling water wells (except water intake wells in oil and gas fields) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 145 employers in Kokomo, 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 S.U.R. Construction West, Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stettler Supply Company 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hunter Construction Group Inc 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Civil Construction 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greenleaf Holdco LLC 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Poultry Services, MPS Egg Farms 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yale Corteva 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marion Svc Ctr Bldg 1 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kokomo Transmission Plant 3,289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fiat Chrysler Automobiles- Indiana Transmission Plant 1 1,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indiana Transmission Plant 1 1,545 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kokomo Casting Plant 1,267 FTE
NAT-TCR Villas of Holly Brook -Morton 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Whitestone Construction Corp. 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Generali Elementary School 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AccuTec, Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE WH Bagshaw Co., Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shallco Incorporated 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Koester Associates, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vista Balboa 38 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.