Paving blocks and mixtures made from purchased asphaltic materials · Tennessee

Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis

Memphis, TN · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Paving blocks and mixtures made from purchased asphaltic materials workplace, earning a grade C.

Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Paving blocks and mixtures made from purchased asphaltic materials BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis safety composite

Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis: 4.1 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2024

Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis's TCR rose 3.5 from 4.1 in 2021 to 7.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 324121 · Memphis, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO ICP Gardner-Gibson, …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ICP Gardner-Gibson, Tampa (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Paving blocks and mixtures made from purchased asphaltic materials BLS benchmark).

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

Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis TCR series: 2021=4.1 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis falls in its industry

131 Paving blocks and mixtures mad establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Paving blocks and mixtures mad employers in Tennessee.

Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis (26 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis
Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis (26 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. - Memphis has fewer employees than the Paving blocks and mixtures made from pur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 7.6 7.6 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.1 4.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

324121 · TN · Memphis

131 Paving blocks and mixtures made from purchased asphaltic materials employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,330 employers in Memphis, TN · 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 ICP Gardner-Gibson, Tampa 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blackjack Paving 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brox Industries Inc. - Materials 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSA Materials Inc. 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buy Sod - Nashville 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tobacco Pride 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tennessee Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEMC-Springfield 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR FedEx 2903 SPRANKLE DR 12,398 FTE
CITY-NEAR 381940311 9,861 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Residential Services 5,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 5,599 FTE
NAT-TCR Double D Express Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Townsend IGA 1557 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - CLE5 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Alton Steel 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Whitacre Glass Works LLC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Endoscopy 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reaction CO 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monroe Commissary 26 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.