Compressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction · Kansas

Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc.

Caney, KS · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc. runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Compressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc.: 7.0 TCR = 250% of Compressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc. safety composite

Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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 7 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc.: 5.5 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.1 from 5.5 in 2023 to 8.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237120 · Caney, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 250% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO Performance Contract…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Performance Contractors, Inc. - Fab Module Yard-Port Allen (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc. averages 7.0 TCR (250% of the Compressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc. TCR series: 2023=5.5 · 2024=8.6 · BLS 2.8

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

809 Compressor, metering and pumpi establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Compressor, metering and pumpi employers in Kansas.

Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc.
Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7

Tom's Ditching & Backhoe, Inc. has fewer employees than the Compressor, metering and pumping station median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.7. 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 8.6 5.7 2 1 0
2023 5.5 2.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237120 · KS · Caney

809 Compressor, metering and pumping station, gas and oil pipeline, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 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 Performance Contractors, Inc. - Fab Module Yard-Port Allen 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR J Porter Enterprises 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seneca Companies-Denver 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gunter Construction Company, Inc - WGA 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brookover Feed Yard 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Pioneer Electric Company Liberal District 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kansas City Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sherwood Construction Co. - Wichita 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kansas 559 FTE
NAT-TCR Northeast Prestressed Products, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gladen Construction Inc 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectex, Inc 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR N. K. Hurst Company 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Multi-Plastics Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlas Automation Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amlings LLC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bryant Structures Inc. 35 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. 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.