Elevated highway construction · Texas

Border West Expressway

El Paso, TX · ~225 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Border West Expressway runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Elevated highway construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Border West Expressway: 1.5 TCR = 54% of Elevated highway construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Border West Expressway safety composite

Border West Expressway scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.5

2016→2020

Border West Expressway injury rate improved

Border West Expressway's TCR fell 4.5 from 4.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2017=0.4 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 54% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #113/286
  • PHOTO Mt Carmel Stabilizat…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~225 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mt Carmel Stabilization Group, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Border West Expressway in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Border West Expressway averages 1.5 TCR (54% of the Elevated highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

Border West Expressway TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=0.4 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Border West Expressway falls in its industry

4,078 Elevated highway construction establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #113 safest of 286 Elevated highway construction employers in Texas.

Border West Expressway (225 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Border West Expressway
Border West Expressway (225 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Border West Expressway has more employees than the Elevated highway construction 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.8 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.8 0.4 4 0 0
2017 0.4 0.2 2 0 0
2016 4.5 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · TX · El Paso

4,078 Elevated highway construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 974 employers in El Paso, 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 Mt Carmel Stabilization Group, Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR JFShea Construction-Redding 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRP Construction Group LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR T.MAUS GRADING & PAVING INC 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Xtreme Drilling Inc. 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harrisburg Service Center CP51 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7421-Ineos Chocolate Bayou 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE C1635 - Lyondellbasell - Potba 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Paso 2,330 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alegre Home Health Care, LLC EL PASO 1,942 FTE
CITY-NEAR Office of Field Operations - El Paso 1,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR MVT Services, LLC 1,798 FTE
NAT-TCR Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 008 - Peoria, IL 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Irvine Daimler 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR National Distribution Centers LLC-1150 Commerce Blvd. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Great Lakes Painesville 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE RCN Telecom Services, LLC - Bethlehem Ave C. 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schindler Holland R&D 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pennsauken Pet Food 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips Volcano-Rancho Cordova 225 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: 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.