Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors · Missouri

RL Persons Construction Inc.

Poplar Bluff, MO · ~54 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RL Persons Construction Inc. runs at 304% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

RL Persons Construction Inc.: 8.5 TCR = 304% of Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RL Persons Construction Inc. safety composite

RL Persons Construction Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−6.6

2017→2024

RL Persons Construction Inc. injury rate improved

RL Persons Construction Inc.'s TCR fell 6.6 from 10.7 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.7 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=10.3 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Poplar Bluff, MO ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 304% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #24/26
  • PHOTO Lloyd's Construction…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lloyd's Construction Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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RL Persons Construction Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RL Persons Construction Inc. averages 8.5 TCR (304% 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

RL Persons Construction Inc. TCR series: 2017=10.7 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=10.3 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=4 · BLS 2.8

Where RL Persons Construction Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or la establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Missouri alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 26 Excavating, earthmoving, or la employers in Missouri.

RL Persons Construction Inc. (54 employees, TCR 8.5) 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 RL Persons Construction Inc.
RL Persons Construction Inc. (54 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

RL Persons Construction Inc. has more employees than the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearin median and a higher 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 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2023 6.1 0.0 3 0 0
2022 9.1 4.6 4 0 0
2021 8.3 2.8 3 0 0
2020 10.3 0.0 4 0 0
2019 10.9 10.9 3 0 0
2017 10.7 8.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · MO · Poplar Bluff

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,075 rated employers in Missouri with headcount on file · 56 employers in Poplar Bluff, MO · 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 Lloyd's Construction Services, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veransa Group Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CM2 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SMR Aggregates 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake Road Generating Station 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Labadie Power Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Substations - North 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 090 - System Relay Svcs - MO 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Briggs & Stratton 676 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poplar Bluff, Missouri Facility 671 FTE
CITY-NEAR 19 420 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 19 418 FTE
NAT-TCR TPI Ponce 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR S & S Grove Management Services, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Butler, Pa Branch 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Voorhees Pediatric Facility 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Moulding 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jim Crawford Construction Co Inc 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE 209BLM 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE 205IND 54 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.