Excavation contractors · Indiana

Wigent excavating

Columbia City, IN · ~18 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wigent excavating runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

Wigent excavating: 2.0 TCR = 72% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wigent excavating safety composite

Wigent excavating scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

Wigent excavating held a steady TCR band

Wigent excavating's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 72% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/39
  • PHOTO Clauss Construction …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clauss Construction Las Vegas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wigent excavating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wigent excavating averages 2.0 TCR (72% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Wigent excavating TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Wigent excavating falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 59% 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 #20 safest of 39 Excavation contractors employers in Indiana.

Wigent excavating (18 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Wigent excavating
Wigent excavating (18 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Wigent excavating 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.8 4.8 0 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 9.1 9.1 1 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · IN · Columbia City

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 67 employers in Columbia City, IN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Clauss Construction Las Vegas 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aspen Earthworks, Inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dahn Construction Co LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LINDAHL BROTHERS, INC. 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE RVF Washington 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Madison (Pwr Del-IN) 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE 745-NiSource-Peru IN-Operating HQ 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sterling Construction Corporation 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics, Inc. - Structural and Rail 944 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steel Dynamics Structural & Rail Division 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lear Corporation - Columbia City 529 FTE
CITY-NEAR Undersea Sensor Systems Inc 527 FTE
NAT-TCR Ragnar Events LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR K.K. Stevens Publishing Co. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kramski North America Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Flow-Rite Controls 2.0 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.