Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors · Indiana

WB Koester Construction, LLC

Bloomington, IN · ~66 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WB Koester Construction, LLC runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

WB Koester Construction, LLC: 0.9 TCR = 31% of Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WB Koester Construction, LLC safety composite

WB Koester Construction, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−1.7

2016→2017

WB Koester Construction, LLC injury rate improved

WB Koester Construction, LLC's TCR fell 1.7 from 1.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.7 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/39
  • PHOTO The Beaver Excavatin…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Beaver Excavating Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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WB Koester Construction, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WB Koester Construction, LLC averages 0.9 TCR (31% 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

WB Koester Construction, LLC TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=0 · BLS 2.8

Where WB Koester Construction, LLC falls in its industry

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or la establishments

Safer than 87% 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 #4 safest of 39 Excavating, earthmoving, or la employers in Indiana.

WB Koester Construction, LLC (66 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 WB Koester Construction, LLC
WB Koester Construction, LLC (66 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

WB Koester Construction, LLC has more employees than the Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearin 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
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · IN · Bloomington

1,750 Excavating, earthmoving, or land clearing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 204 employers in Bloomington, 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 The Beaver Excavating Company 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR JP Company 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dave Roman Excavating, Inc 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doug Veerkamp General Engineering Inc. 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Terre Haute Operations Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE AES Indiana (T&D) - Arlington Service Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE 573-NiSource-Angola IN-Operating HQ 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Huntington 04 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Incorporated Park 48 3,062 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cook Inc 2,976 FTE
CITY-NEAR CI-P48 2,567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bloomington 2,251 FTE
NAT-TCR Rai Crew Lga 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Recovery Unplugged Austin LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CC007 - Permit & Design Office 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Grass Golden Corral - Winchester 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Emco Wheaton Retail Corp. 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Fredericktown Inc 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Walnut Creek 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE VC047 - VCI - Las Vegas 66 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: 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.