Oil field road construction · Montana

High Country Paving

Belgrade, MT · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

High Country Paving runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Oil field road construction workplace, earning a grade C.

High Country Paving: 3.2 TCR = 114% of Oil field road construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

High Country Paving safety composite

High Country Paving scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

High Country Paving: 0.0 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.19× in 2022

High Country Paving's TCR rose 7.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 7.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Belgrade, MT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 114% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #15/25
  • PHOTO Iroquois Paving Corp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Iroquois Paving Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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High Country Paving in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows High Country Paving averages 3.2 TCR (114% of the Oil field road construction BLS benchmark).

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

High Country Paving TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=2.6 · 2022=7 · BLS 2.8

Where High Country Paving falls in its industry

4,078 Oil field road construction establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Montana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 25 Oil field road construction employers in Montana.

High Country Paving (35 employees, TCR 3.2) 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 High Country Paving
High Country Paving (35 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

High Country Paving has fewer employees than the Oil field road construction 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
2022 7.0 7.0 3 0 0
2020 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MT · Belgrade

4,078 Oil field road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,536 rated employers in Montana with headcount on file · 50 employers in Belgrade, MT · 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 Iroquois Paving Corporation 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR I485 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paving & Grading 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Curtin Co. 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Roundup Yard 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hardin Generating Station 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Meadow Herbs 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Steel Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABS-0030-0030-00009 FAC-00009-BELGRADE-MT 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4054-ABS-0030-0030-00009 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4054-ABS 0030 0009 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Xtant Medical 122 FTE
NAT-TCR ISD 659 District Office 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal FG -Winlock FG 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nathan Hale Middle School 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 360064-Advance Po 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Child & Family Services - Oak Park 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG1039 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG772 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: 2022, 2020, 2019. 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.