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

Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office

Palmer, MA · ~101 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office: 2.2 TCR = 79% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office safety composite

Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office: 1.7 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2024

Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.7 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Palmer, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.2 · 79% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #19/56
  • PHOTO Ranger Construction_…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ranger Construction_West Palm Beach (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office averages 2.2 TCR (79% 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

Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office TCR series: 2016=1.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=3 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=4.3 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 56 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Massachusetts.

Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office (101 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office
Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office (101 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Palmer Paving Corp. Road Construction and Support Office has more employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge 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 2.5 1.2 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2020 4.3 3.5 4 1 0
2019 4.3 3.5 4 1 0
2018 3.0 2.0 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.7 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MA · Palmer

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 27 employers in Palmer, MA · 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 Ranger Construction_West Palm Beach 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Banks Construction Company 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRAFFIC HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE LLC 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lone Star Paving - Jung Road 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE W.T. Rich Company 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Erland Construction, Inc. Main Office 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mass Bay Electrical Corp. 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cogswell Sprinkler Co., Inc. 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR WMH - Wing Memorial Hospital 676 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Tree Service, LLC 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern General Contractors Inc 168 FTE
NAT-TCR Hummel Station 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR White Bear CM LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Heely-Brown Company 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cassville Hatchery 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fort Wayne Allen County Airport Authority 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Holden Arboretum 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zinpro Corporate Headquarters 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel Viata 101 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.