Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction · Ohio

First Star Safety LLC

Cincinnati, OH · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Star Safety LLC runs at 300% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

First Star Safety LLC: 8.4 TCR = 300% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Star Safety LLC safety composite

First Star Safety LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

First Star Safety LLC held a steady TCR band

First Star Safety LLC's TCR held near 0.1 from 8.3 in 2018 to 8.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.3 · 2023=8.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Cincinnati, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 300% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #134/141
  • PHOTO Hicks Striping & Cur…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hicks Striping & Curbing LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Star Safety LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Star Safety LLC averages 8.4 TCR (300% of the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS benchmark).

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

First Star Safety LLC TCR series: 2018=8.3 · 2023=8.5 · BLS 2.8

Where First Star Safety LLC falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #134 safest of 141 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Ohio.

First Star Safety LLC (29 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 First Star Safety LLC
First Star Safety LLC (29 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

First Star Safety LLC has fewer employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge 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 8.5 5.6 3 0 0
2018 8.3 8.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · OH · Cincinnati

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 1,513 employers in Cincinnati, OH · 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 Hicks Striping & Curbing LLC 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Region 2- Springfield 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wildish Standard Paving Co. 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rebcon LLC 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Union City Facility 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Breeder Division Field Office 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plibrico Refractories LLC - Oak Hill 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanging Rock Energy Facility 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center 17,011 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cincinnati Operations 10,239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain : Evendale, OH 7,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Supply Chain Evendale OH 6,400 FTE
NAT-TCR Merhow Acquisition LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Barber Spring 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Protech Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SUPER STEEL LLC - Mequon 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rawhide Portable Corral INC. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE BioPro Inc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roedel Partners of Merrimack, LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Residence Inn La Quinta 29 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, 2018. 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.