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

Basic Construction Co.

Newport News, VA · ~124 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Basic Construction Co. runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Basic Construction Co.: 2.5 TCR = 90% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Basic Construction Co. safety composite

Basic Construction Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2016→2023

Basic Construction Co. injury rate improved

Basic Construction Co.'s TCR fell 1.8 from 4.0 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.0 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=3.8 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Newport News, VA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 90% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #65/141
  • PHOTO Ajax Paving
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ajax Paving (0.0 TCR gap)

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Basic Construction Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Basic Construction Co. averages 2.5 TCR (90% 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

Basic Construction Co. TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=3.8 · 2022=2.8 · 2023=2.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Basic Construction Co. falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 141 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Virginia.

Basic Construction Co. (124 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Basic Construction Co.
Basic Construction Co. (124 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Basic Construction Co. 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
2023 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2022 2.8 1.9 3 0 0
2020 3.8 2.3 5 0 0
2019 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 2.5 2.5 3 0 0
2017 1.6 0.0 2 0 0
2016 4.0 3.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · VA · Newport News

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 330 employers in Newport News, VA · 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 Ajax Paving 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ranger Construction 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerken Paving, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SER Construction Partners, LLC 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Procon 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trivium Packaging USA, Inc. - Roanoke 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE BAE Systems I&S - Chincoteague/Wallop's Island 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE DOMINION ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO.,INC CHANTILLY 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries 24,543 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center 2,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center-113 1,680 FTE
CITY-NEAR 12490 Jefferson Ave 1,503 FTE
NAT-TCR Chameleon Color Cards, Ltd. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Container Corporation - Houston 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fluid Connectors : Ravenna 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn Greenville SC 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hendley Communications, Inc. 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hot Springs 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE 044-ROE Salem 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Volvo Construction Equipment and Services 124 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.