Excavation contractors · Indiana

Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc.

Mount Vernon, IN · ~32 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc.: 2.3 TCR = 83% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. safety composite

Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−1.2

2016→2024

Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. injury rate improved

Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc.'s TCR fell 1.2 from 5.0 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Mount Vernon, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 83% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #23/39
  • PHOTO DeKoster Excavating,…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DeKoster Excavating, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. averages 2.3 TCR (83% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 39 Excavation contractors employers in Indiana.

Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. (32 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc.
Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. (32 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Russell's Excavating & Septic Tanks Inc. has fewer employees than the Excavation contractors 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 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2023 3.8 1.9 2 0 0
2022 4.6 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · IN · Mount Vernon

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 21 employers in Mount Vernon, 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 DeKoster Excavating, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Noury Construction Co 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Demo Plus Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rasmussen Excavation LLC 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE R. Gallagher Generating Station 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jasper County REMC Headquarters 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana American Water-Northwest District Borman Park Water Treatment Plant 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS MT VERNON LLC 1,132 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWX Technologies 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sabic-IP Mt. Vernon 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR KLS MJN IN CMO 194 FTE
NAT-TCR Greensburg Packaged Gas Plant 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR A-1 Systems, Inc. ( Fort Worth location) 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pitt Ohio - Cleveland 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jayhawk Fire Sprinkler Co Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE T. H. Eifert, LLC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill CFL - St Cloud 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fortrans, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kurk Concrete, Inc. 32 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.