Heavy Highway Construction · Kentucky

Charbon Contracting LLC

Madisonville, KY · ~45 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charbon Contracting LLC runs at 245% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Heavy Highway Construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Charbon Contracting LLC: 6.8 TCR = 245% of Heavy Highway Construction BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charbon Contracting LLC safety composite

Charbon Contracting LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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)
F 6.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

−14.1

2016→2024

Charbon Contracting LLC injury rate improved

Charbon Contracting LLC's TCR fell 14.1 from 14.1 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.1 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=9.2 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=12.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Madisonville, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 245% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #41/51
  • PHOTO OBC, Inc.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OBC, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Charbon Contracting LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charbon Contracting LLC averages 6.8 TCR (245% of the Heavy Highway Construction BLS benchmark).

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

Charbon Contracting LLC TCR series: 2016=14.1 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=9.2 · 2021=1.8 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=12.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Charbon Contracting LLC falls in its industry

4,078 Heavy Highway Construction establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 51 Heavy Highway Construction employers in Kentucky.

Charbon Contracting LLC (45 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Charbon Contracting LLC
Charbon Contracting LLC (45 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Charbon Contracting LLC has fewer employees than the Heavy Highway Construction 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 12.8 4.3 6 0 0
2022 9.8 1.9 5 0 0
2021 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2019 9.2 7.4 5 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2016 14.1 10.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · KY · Madisonville

4,078 Heavy Highway Construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 90 employers in Madisonville, KY · 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 OBC, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HMA Paving - Chambersburg Area 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wyoming Excavators Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LORI'S TRANSPORTATION 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatchery 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE PMI Field 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLAYTON WATKINS CONSTRUCTION CO INC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Kentucky Construction 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Madisonville 1,361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Deaconess 1,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Madisonville, Ky 549 FTE
CITY-NEAR 875 482 FTE
NAT-TCR Negwer Materials Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FV Clinics-Hugo Victor 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bradley & Son's, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PADDLEFISH 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northeast Automatic Sprinkler Co., Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grunloh Construction Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bastrop ISD 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Paso Emergency Squad 45 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, 2022, 2021, 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.