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

A.L. Helmcamp, Inc.

Buffalo, TX · ~333 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

A.L. Helmcamp, Inc. runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade A.

A.L. Helmcamp, Inc.: 1.2 TCR = 44% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A.L. Helmcamp, Inc. safety composite

A.L. Helmcamp, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

−0.5

2018→2024

A.L. Helmcamp, Inc. injury rate improved

A.L. Helmcamp, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.5 from 1.6 in 2018 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.6 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=0.3 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Buffalo, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #79/286
  • PHOTO NORTHSTAR ASPHALT, I…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~333 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NORTHSTAR ASPHALT, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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A.L. Helmcamp, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A.L. Helmcamp, Inc. averages 1.2 TCR (44% 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

A.L. Helmcamp, Inc. TCR series: 2018=1.6 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=0.8 · 2021=0.3 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 2.8

Where A.L. Helmcamp, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #79 safest of 286 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Texas.

A.L. Helmcamp, Inc. (333 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 A.L. Helmcamp, Inc.
A.L. Helmcamp, Inc. (333 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

A.L. Helmcamp, Inc. has more employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge median and a lower 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
2024 1.1 0.6 7 0 0
2023 2.8 1.7 9 1 1
2021 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.8 0.3 3 0 0
2019 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2018 1.6 1.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · TX · Buffalo

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 7 employers in Buffalo, TX · 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 NORTHSTAR ASPHALT, INC. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skanska Koch 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flatiron Dragados Llc 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction Resources Management, Inc. - Labs/Tanks 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gladiator Energy, LLC 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lindamood Demolition 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beaumont Chemical Plant 333 FTE
STATE-SIZE Navigation 333 FTE
CITY-NEAR R Construction Company 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR Store #54 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridley Block Operations - Buffalo 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridley Block Operations 22 FTE
NAT-TCR MPD Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR L&L Painting Co., Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Metropolitan Industries 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Courier Printing Corp 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Home Care - Pinellas 333 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago Bakery 333 FTE
NAT-SIZE W&W|AFCO Steel Little Rock 333 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moen Sanford 333 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.