Road construction · Michigan

Chippewa County Road Commission

Sault Ste Marie, MI · ~77 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chippewa County Road Commission runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Chippewa County Road Commission: 2.3 TCR = 81% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chippewa County Road Commission safety composite

Chippewa County Road Commission scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Chippewa County Road Commission: 0.9 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2018

Chippewa County Road Commission's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.9 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Sault Ste Marie, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 81% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #33/139
  • PHOTO C.W. Roberts Contrac…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C.W. Roberts Contracting Tallahassee Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chippewa County Road Commission in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chippewa County Road Commission averages 2.3 TCR (81% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Chippewa County Road Commission TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=3.2 · 2018=2.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Chippewa County Road Commission falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 139 Road construction employers in Michigan.

Chippewa County Road Commission (77 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Chippewa County Road Commission
Chippewa County Road Commission (77 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Chippewa County Road Commission has more employees than the Road 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
2018 2.7 1.4 1 1 0
2017 3.2 1.6 1 1 0
2016 0.9 0.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MI · Sault Ste Marie

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 13 employers in Sault Ste Marie, MI · 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 C.W. Roberts Contracting Tallahassee Division 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northwoods Paving 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Shelly Company - Northwest Division HMA 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Region 4- Bend Bldg M 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE M&M Excavating Co., Inc. 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Selge Construction Co., Inc. 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE C & R Electric - Main Office 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summit Contractors Inc 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR 293 - Sault Ste Marie 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Precision Edge Surgical Products LLC SSM 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Transitions Inc 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR TN Michigan, LLC 72 FTE
NAT-TCR Enterprise Rent A Car RDU 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 26709 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ops 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4818-48180054-3860 S. Harrmon-Wc 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marriott Residence Inn Beverly Hills 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mersen Salem 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sierra Vista Healthcare Center 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexus Danvers 77 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: 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.