Commercial building construction · Kentucky

M.P. Lawson Construction, LLC

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Paducah, KY · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 2.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

M.P. Lawson Construction, LLC runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial building construction workplace, earning a grade C.

M.P. Lawson Construction, LLC: 2.8 TCR = 98% of Commercial building construction BLS 2.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

M.P. Lawson Construction, LLC safety composite

M.P. Lawson Construction, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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).

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 2.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

M.P. Lawson Construction, LLC: 0.0 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2017

M.P. Lawson Construction, LLC's TCR rose 5.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Paducah, KY AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 98% of ind

DART 5.7 DART
RANK #36/71
PHOTO Rice Companies Inc.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rice Companies Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.8

What this shows M.P. Lawson Construction, LLC averages 2.8 TCR (98% of the Commercial building construction BLS benchmark).

M.P. Lawson Construction, LLC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5.7 · BLS 2.9

Where M.P. Lawson Construction, LLC falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 71 Commercial building constructi employers in Kentucky.

M.P. Lawson Construction, LLC (20 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

M.P. Lawson Construction, LLC has fewer employees than the Commercial building construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2017	5.7	5.7	1	0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · KY · Paducah

4,692 Commercial building construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 198 employers in Paducah, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Rice Companies Inc.	SAUK RAPIDS, MN	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CD Smith Construction - UW Madison Vet Med	MADISON, WI	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	E. F. Brett & Company Inc.	PETALUMA, CA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	VMC Group - Houston	HOUSTON, TX	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Farm	LEXINGTON	20 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bosch Berries Kentucky Operations	SOMERSET KY	20 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Electric Plant Board of the City of Russellville	RUSSELLVILLE	20 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Daysville	ELKTON	20 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ingram barge Company	Paducah	2,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Health Paducah Hospital	Paducah	1,605 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Health Paducah	Paducah	1,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baptist Heatlh Paducah	Paducah	1,398 FTE
NAT-TCR	Deep Meadow Correctional Center	State Farm, VA	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	GEHC : Westborough MA, LS	Westborough, MA	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	GREENVILLE	Ayden, NC	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Scenic Hills Care Center	Ferdinand, IN	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	105 Stonecrest Drive	Bellefonte, PA	20 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Crown Lift Trucks Shreveport	Metairie, LA	20 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0787 - Cullman, Al	Cullman, AL	20 FTE
NAT-SIZE	0751 - Ridgecrest, Ca	Ridgecrest, CA	20 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.