Highway construction · Ohio

Gerken Paving, Inc.

Napoleon, OH · ~147 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gerken Paving, Inc. runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Gerken Paving, Inc.: 2.5 TCR = 90% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gerken Paving, Inc. safety composite

Gerken Paving, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Gerken Paving, Inc.: 1.8 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2024

Gerken Paving, Inc.'s TCR rose 4.6 from 1.8 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 90% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #67/141
  • PHOTO Ajax Paving
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~147 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ajax Paving (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gerken Paving, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gerken Paving, Inc. averages 2.5 TCR (90% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

Gerken Paving, Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2017=1.1 · 2022=0.8 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Gerken Paving, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 57% 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 #67 safest of 141 Highway construction employers in Ohio.

Gerken Paving, Inc. (147 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Paving, Inc.
Gerken Paving, Inc. (147 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Gerken Paving, Inc. has more 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 6.4 2.8 7 0 0
2022 0.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · OH · Napoleon

4,078 Highway 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 Ajax Paving 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ranger Construction 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SER Construction Partners, LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paul J Rach Inc. 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shelly Northeast construction 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zanesville (750 Airport Road) OH Plant 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Samuel Adams Cincinnati Brewery 147 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stark Truss Co., Inc. Canton, OH 147 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 WIS Oven 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Torrance County 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Materion Newton Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TLG-Louisville 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain Hewitt Packard 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baptist Village of Oklahoma City 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universal Electric Company 147 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0000000045 Center City Skilled Nursing 147 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, 2022, 2017, 2016. 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.