Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction · Illinois

Madison County Highway Department

Edwardsville, IL · ~53 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Madison County Highway Department runs at 265% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Madison County Highway Department: 7.4 TCR = 265% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Madison County Highway Department safety composite

Madison County Highway Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Madison County Highway Department: 7.9 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2024

Madison County Highway Department's TCR rose 2.2 from 7.9 in 2019 to 10.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Edwardsville, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 265% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #151/266
  • PHOTO Barletta Heavy Divis…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Barletta Heavy Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Madison County Highway Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Madison County Highway Department averages 7.4 TCR (265% of the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Madison County Highway Department TCR series: 2019=7.9 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=2 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=14.1 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Madison County Highway Department falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #151 safest of 266 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Illinois.

Madison County Highway Department (53 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 Madison County Highway Department
Madison County Highway Department (53 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Madison County Highway Department has fewer employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge 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
2024 10.1 6.0 5 0 0
2023 14.1 8.1 7 0 0
2022 6.2 4.1 3 0 0
2021 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.1 0.0 2 0 0
2019 7.9 4.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Edwardsville

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 105 employers in Edwardsville, 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 Barletta Heavy Division 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hartman & Company, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACME Barricades Orlando 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3601 Albuquerque NM 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flamm Orchards Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Princeton IL Research-PRI2 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2505-Mason City, IL 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie State Generating Company - Corporate Office 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAIC2 1,167 FTE
CITY-NEAR J.F. Electric, Incorporated 989 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : STL4 905 FTE
CITY-NEAR Madison County Government 886 FTE
NAT-TCR 4372 - Jeffersonville Truss 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Elastizell of Wisconsin, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartford Finishing Inc. East 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Waste Path Services, LLC 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE US Aqua Services Inc 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARMM Logistics Corp 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burlingame Alaska Mgmt 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE michigan prime logistics and Delivery 53 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.