Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) · South Carolina

King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate

Liberty, SC · ~196 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) workplace, earning a grade C.

King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate: 2.8 TCR = 99% of Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate safety composite

King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate: 1.7 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.7 in 2022 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Liberty, SC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 99% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #21/38
  • PHOTO Callahan Paving Corp.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Callahan Paving Corp. (0.0 TCR gap)

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King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate averages 2.8 TCR (99% of the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS benchmark).

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

King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate TCR series: 2022=1.7 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 2.8

Where King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate falls in its industry

4,078 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 38 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, employers in South Carolina.

King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate (196 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate
King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate (196 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

King Asphalt, Inc. Upstate has more employees than the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, str 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 2.2 1.9 6 0 0
2023 4.4 2.8 11 0 1
2022 1.7 1.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · SC · Liberty

4,078 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,610 rated employers in South Carolina with headcount on file · 18 employers in Liberty, SC · 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 Callahan Paving Corp. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Earle Asphalt Company 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scarsella Brothers, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bergeron Land Development, Inc 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milliken Gilliland Plant 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE CSP Conway 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE 011-00675 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1603 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reliable Automatic Sprinkler - South Carolina 769 FTE
CITY-NEAR CN Liberty 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR US Waffle Company 356 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRM Liberty SC 326 FTE
NAT-TCR Bose Tolleson 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR D&E Machining, Ltd. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market Oxford 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Slemco Lafayette 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fleming Center 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Geisinger Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE MPN Incorporated 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weber Display and Packaging 196 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, 2023, 2022. 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.