Highway construction · Illinois

E.T. Simonds Materials Company

Carbondale, IL · ~31 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

E.T. Simonds Materials Company runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade B.

E.T. Simonds Materials Company: 1.6 TCR = 57% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

E.T. Simonds Materials Company safety composite

E.T. Simonds Materials Company 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−2.0

2016→2024

E.T. Simonds Materials Company injury rate improved

E.T. Simonds Materials Company's TCR fell 2.0 from 4.3 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Carbondale, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 57% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #40/266
  • PHOTO H & R PAVING, INC.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: H & R PAVING, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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E.T. Simonds Materials Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows E.T. Simonds Materials Company averages 1.6 TCR (57% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

E.T. Simonds Materials Company TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 2.8

Where E.T. Simonds Materials Company falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 266 Highway construction employers in Illinois.

E.T. Simonds Materials Company (31 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 E.T. Simonds Materials Company
E.T. Simonds Materials Company (31 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

E.T. Simonds Materials Company has fewer employees than the 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
2024 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.5 2.3 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Carbondale

4,078 Highway construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 67 employers in Carbondale, IL · 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 H & R PAVING, INC. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 90008650 - Hunts Point WWTP 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7568_19839 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minichi Inc. 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bear Creek Genetics, LLC. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Highland 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Maschhoffs, LLC - Pittsfield Office 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Beardstown 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Illinois University Carbondale 6,287 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital of Carbondale 1,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carbondale 824 FTE
CITY-NEAR System Office 387 FTE
NAT-TCR Safariland LLC Airport 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Guilford County Department of Social Services - Greensboro 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Plastipak- Pineville 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Health Services 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Forest Park Hampton Inn & Suites 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE MiEnergy Cooperative - Iowa 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grayson Lake State Park 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southgate 31 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, 2020, 2019, 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.