Road construction · Ohio

Gerken Asphalt Paving

Napoleon, OH · ~94 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerken Asphalt Paving runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Gerken Asphalt Paving: 0.9 TCR = 33% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerken Asphalt Paving safety composite

Gerken Asphalt Paving scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−1.8

2016→2024

Gerken Asphalt Paving injury rate improved

Gerken Asphalt Paving's TCR fell 1.8 from 1.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 1.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Napoleon, OH AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/141
  • PHOTO Crane Creek Asphalt
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crane Creek Asphalt (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerken Asphalt Paving in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerken Asphalt Paving averages 0.9 TCR (33% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Gerken Asphalt Paving TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Gerken Asphalt Paving falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 85% 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 #12 safest of 141 Road construction employers in Ohio.

Gerken Asphalt Paving (94 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 Gerken Asphalt Paving
Gerken Asphalt Paving (94 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Gerken Asphalt Paving 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · OH · Napoleon

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 51 employers in Napoleon, 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 Crane Creek Asphalt 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teichert Construction Woodland 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Department of Transportation Facility 491 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phend & Brown, Inc. 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE K.W. Zellers & Son, Inc. 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scherzinger Pest Control 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE AEP Energy Contact Center 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTERN - WEST PARK SHOP 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Filling Homes 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Filling Memorial Home of Mercy, Inc. 345 FTE
CITY-NEAR JAC Products Inc. 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR Napoleon Facility 269 FTE
NAT-TCR Mizkan America 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson MS 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cambria Hotel Plano 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Srq Sarasota Bradenton Internationa 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Richland Glass Company, LLC 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Hulling Company LP 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omaha 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dakota Stone Inc 94 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.