Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction · Illinois

118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders

Chicago, IL · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade D.

118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders: 3.6 TCR = 128% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders safety composite

118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders: 2.3 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders's TCR rose 2.6 from 2.3 in 2022 to 4.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 128% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #93/266
  • PHOTO T & G Construction I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: T & G Construction Inc. (Lawton) (0.0 TCR gap)

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118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders averages 3.6 TCR (128% of the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS benchmark).

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

118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders TCR series: 2022=2.3 · 2023=4.9 · BLS 2.8

Where 118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #93 safest of 266 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Illinois.

118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders (53 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders
118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders (53 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

118 - South Capitol Bridgebuilders has fewer employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge 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 Fatalities
2023 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Chicago

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 2,934 employers in Chicago, IL · 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 T & G Construction Inc. (Lawton) 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kenmore Construction Co., Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR A Affordable Striping & Sealing LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Enebak Construction Company 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flamm Orchards Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Princeton IL Research-PRI2 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2505-Mason City, IL 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie State Generating Company - Corporate Office 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR American Snuff Company (Clarksville) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mitchell County Hospital 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 200Pocahontas 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 55595 Rpta 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Birmingham-Toledo, Inc 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE *Germantown Community Health Services 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Buena Vista Golf Course 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Optical Cable Corporation Asheville 53 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.