Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors · Illinois

Ragnar Benson

Rockford, IL · ~85 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ragnar Benson runs at 13% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Ragnar Benson: 0.3 TCR = 13% of Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ragnar Benson safety composite

Ragnar Benson scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2020→2024

Ragnar Benson injury rate improved

Ragnar Benson's TCR fell 0.9 from 0.9 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 0.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.9 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Rockford, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.3 · 13% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/52
  • PHOTO Bierlein Companies, …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bierlein Companies, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ragnar Benson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ragnar Benson averages 0.3 TCR (13% of the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Ragnar Benson TCR series: 2020=0.9 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Ragnar Benson falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or la establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 52 Excavating, earthmoving, or la employers in Illinois.

Ragnar Benson (85 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ragnar Benson
Ragnar Benson (85 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Ragnar Benson has more employees than the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · IL · Rockford

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 405 employers in Rockford, IL · 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 Bierlein Companies, Inc 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR K2 Civil Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Petroleum Services 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hammer Construction INC 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Atkinson 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Utica UTI1 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monmouth, IL 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton Power Station 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILRKF - ROCKFORD AIR HUB 2,634 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swedish American Hospital - 4800 2,629 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCI Pharma Services Rockford 2,175 FTE
CITY-NEAR SwedishAmerican Hospital 1,855 FTE
NAT-TCR Westin Homes and Properties, LP 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Latitude 33 Planning & Engineering 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 350 Dwyer Drive 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR California Department of Transportation Facility 333 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Action Lift Inc 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE T3 Expo Las Vegas 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universal Electrical Service 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE My Doctor's Inn 85 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. 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.