Oil pipeline construction · California

Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank

Taft, CA · ~62 workers · 3 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

Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Oil pipeline construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank: 2.3 TCR = 83% of Oil pipeline construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank safety composite

Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank held a steady TCR band

Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237120 · Taft, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #42/45
  • PHOTO Henkels & McCoy, New…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Henkels & McCoy, New Jersey - Burlington-60G4 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank averages 2.3 TCR (83% of the Oil pipeline construction BLS benchmark).

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

Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank falls in its industry

809 Oil pipeline construction establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #42 safest of 45 Oil pipeline construction employers in California.

Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank (62 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank
Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank (62 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 137 employees and a TCR of 0.7

Watkins Construction Co. Inc., dba Johnston Vacuum tank has fewer employees than the Oil pipeline construction 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.9 5.5 5 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237120 · CA · Taft

809 Oil pipeline construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 17 employers in Taft, CA · 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 Henkels & McCoy, New Jersey - Burlington-60G4 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wood Group USA Inc., MONDAK Service Area 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR AM Ortega Construction Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maine Office 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zipper Farms, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crain Marketing, Inc. 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maricopa Orchards, LLC 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTLAND ORCHIDS 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 391 1,479 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6808-0415 281 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-01382 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABS-0029-0028-01382 FAC-01382-TAFT-CA 79 FTE
NAT-TCR SV 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Disposal - Dubois Hauling 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassionate Care Hospice of Hialeah 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rayburn Health Care 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Obion County Nursing Home 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winchester12 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denver Heating & Air Conditioning 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reynolds Metals Company - Gum Springs 62 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: 2019, 2018, 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.