Highway construction · Illinois

Howell Paving, Inc.

Mattoon, IL · ~128 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howell Paving, Inc. runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Howell Paving, Inc.: 2.1 TCR = 75% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howell Paving, Inc. safety composite

Howell Paving, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Howell Paving, Inc.: 1.9 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2023

Howell Paving, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.5 from 1.9 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Mattoon, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 75% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #53/266
  • PHOTO Rock Road Companies,…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rock Road Companies, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Howell Paving, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howell Paving, Inc. averages 2.1 TCR (75% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

Howell Paving, Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=1.4 · 2020=1.7 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=3.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Howell Paving, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #53 safest of 266 Highway construction employers in Illinois.

Howell Paving, Inc. (128 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Howell Paving, Inc.
Howell Paving, Inc. (128 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Howell 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
2023 3.4 2.6 4 0 0
2022 1.8 0.0 2 0 0
2020 1.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 1.4 1.4 0 1 0
2017 2.4 0.0 2 0 0
2016 1.9 1.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Mattoon

4,078 Highway construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 66 employers in Mattoon, 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 Rock Road Companies, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millboro AHQ 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joseph M. Sanzari Inc 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1304 - Powell TN 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Orsted - Chicago 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Illinois - Salem 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arrow Road 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wegman Electric Company 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center 2,821 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sarah Bush Lincoln Health System 2,352 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 481 342 FTE
CITY-NEAR 481 327 FTE
NAT-TCR C0D08 Nashville 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Love's Truck Solutions 6130 Kingman, AZ 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Boise ID 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Region Distribution 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Astor Services for Children & Families- Residential 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9940 Coborn's Warehouse/Distribution Center 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alaska Court System (4) 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atria on the Hudson 128 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, 2020, 2018, 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.