Construction management, water and sewer line · Minnesota

Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc.

Name: Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Brainerd, MN · ~18 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.7
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc. runs at 345% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction management, water and sewer line workplace, earning a grade F.

Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc.: 9.7 TCR = 345% of Construction management, water and sewer line BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc. safety composite

Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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).

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 9.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−13.6

2019→2023

Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc. injury rate improved

Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc.'s TCR fell 13.6 from 13.6 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=13.6 · 2020=12.9 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Brainerd, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 345% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #30/32
PHOTO Imperial
BOOK 5y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Imperial (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc. averages 9.7 TCR (345% of the Construction management, water and sewer line BLS benchmark).

Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc. TCR series: 2019=13.6 · 2020=12.9 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc. falls in its industry

1,614 Construction management, water establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 32 Construction management, water employers in Minnesota.

Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc. (18 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Tom's Backhoe Service, Inc. has fewer employees than the Construction management, water and sewer 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
2023	0.0	0.0	0	0
2022	7.7	0.0	1	0
2021	14.1	7.1	2	0
2020	12.9	0.0	0	2
2019	13.6	13.6	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · MN · Brainerd

1,614 Construction management, water and sewer line employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Brainerd, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Imperial	IMPERIAL, PA	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Judds Brothers Construction	LINCOLN, NE	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	R Nichols Civil Contractors LLC	LITTLETON, CO	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Killebrew, Inc.	LAKELAND, FL	9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	WPI-Fieldstaff	GAYLORD	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Select Genetics MN Magnum 003-0138-MA	PENNOCK	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mesabi Metallics	NASHWAUK	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Vigen Construction- Erskine	ERSKINE	18 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St Josephs Medical Center	Brainerd	1,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Crow Wing County	Brainerd	522 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Madden's on Gull Lake	Brainerd	262 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Central Lakes Colloege - Brainerd and Staples Campuses	Brainerd	258 FTE
NAT-TCR	Golden Hill Post Acute	San Diego, CA	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Corporate Services - Williamson	South Williamson, KY	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rehabilitation Hospital of Ft Wayne IN	Fort Wayne, IN	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	815 Entertainment dba Rockford Casino	Rockford, IL	9.7 TCR

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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.