Commercial building construction general contractors · Kansas

Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc.

Hays, KS · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
25.4
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc. runs at 874% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc.: 25.4 TCR = 874% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc. safety composite

Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 25.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc.: 20.6 → 30.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 30.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2021

Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc.'s TCR rose 9.5 from 20.6 in 2020 to 30.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Hays, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 25.4 · 874% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #63/63
  • PHOTO Gendron Corp
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gendron Corp (0.3 TCR gap)

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Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc. averages 25.4 TCR (874% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc. TCR series: 2020=20.6 · 2021=30.1 · BLS 2.9

Where Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc. falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #63 safest of 63 Commercial building constructi employers in Kansas.

Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc. (40 employees, TCR 25.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc.
Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc. (40 employees, TCR 25.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Paul Wertenberger Construction Inc. has fewer employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 30.1 7.5 12 0 0
2020 20.6 4.6 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · KS · Hays

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 54 employers in Hays, KS · 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 Gendron Corp 25.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guilford County - Animal Services 26.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Clift Hotel 24.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fountain Construction Co., Inc, UMMC Translational RC, FCC # 215065 23.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE MANHATTAN SC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6271-2700 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE TUKH Cambridge Tower 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gunter Construction 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hays Medical Center 1,343 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 664 368 FTE
CITY-NEAR 664 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR EnerSys Hays 274 FTE
NAT-TCR Far 90 25.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZTRL 25.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Roofing Company Inc 25.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0463 25.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Long Island, NY HVAC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albany, GA HVAC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manchester, NH/Portland, ME HVAC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE JP Hogan Coring & Sawing Corp 40 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. 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.