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

Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc

West Chicago, IL · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) workplace, earning a grade D.

Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc: 4.1 TCR = 148% of Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc safety composite

Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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 4.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc: 0.0 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc's TCR rose 8.3 from 0.0 in 2022 to 8.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · West Chicago, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 148% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #108/266
  • PHOTO RICON Construction
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RICON Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc averages 4.1 TCR (148% 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

Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=8.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc falls in its industry

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

Safer than 36% 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 #108 safest of 266 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, employers in Illinois.

Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc (35 employees, TCR 4.1) 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 Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc
Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc (35 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Evans & Son Blacktop,Inc has fewer employees than the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, str 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
2023 8.3 8.3 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · West Chicago

4,078 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 123 employers in West Chicago, 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 RICON Construction 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tony Lind Paving, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Valley, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Curtin Trucking and Drainage Inc. 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dynegy Kendall Energy LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.J.M. Electric Cooperative, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Beloit Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPage Water Commission 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Jel Sert Company 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR BALL HORTICULTURAL COMPANY 713 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - SIL3 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Siemens West Chicago 342 FTE
NAT-TCR KLLM Transport Services (MS) 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR L&S Packing Company 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Molnlycke Manufacturing US - AWC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectrum Contracting, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oakley St Louis, LLC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lesjofors Springs America 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corteva Agriscience JVL1-JanesvilleWI 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE CRM Plant 307 35 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.