Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) · California

Bowman Asphalt Inc.

Bakersfield, CA · ~73 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bowman Asphalt Inc. runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) workplace, earning a grade A.

Bowman Asphalt Inc.: 0.6 TCR = 20% of Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bowman Asphalt Inc. safety composite

Bowman Asphalt Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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%).

Bowman Asphalt Inc. held a steady TCR band

Bowman Asphalt Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #272/551
  • PHOTO The Hoosier Company,…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Hoosier Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bowman Asphalt Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bowman Asphalt Inc. averages 0.6 TCR (20% of the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS benchmark).

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

Bowman Asphalt Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Bowman Asphalt Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #272 safest of 551 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, employers in California.

Bowman Asphalt Inc. (73 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 Bowman Asphalt Inc.
Bowman Asphalt Inc. (73 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Bowman Asphalt Inc. has more employees than the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, str 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 0.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · CA · Bakersfield

4,078 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 818 employers in Bakersfield, CA · 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 The Hoosier Company, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Construction 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 105146 - HDOT - Runway 8L 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evans & Associates Construction Company 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Columbia 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Location 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE P-R Farms Inc/Palomate Inc 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Bakersfield 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-04 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL1 4,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Esparza Enterprises, Inc 3,267 FTE
NAT-TCR Carlson Racine Roofing & Sheet Metal Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City National Arena 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Environmental Business Specialists LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Richmond Primoid, Inc. 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Senior Living 119th IL 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Modineer Plant 3 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE MTI Ready Mix 73 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.