Road construction · Illinois

Peter Baker & Son Co.

Lake Bluff, IL · ~163 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Peter Baker & Son Co. runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Peter Baker & Son Co.: 1.8 TCR = 66% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Peter Baker & Son Co. safety composite

Peter Baker & Son Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

Peter Baker & Son Co.: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

Peter Baker & Son Co.'s TCR rose 2.6 from 0.0 in 2021 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 66% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #45/266
  • PHOTO Peterson Cotractors,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Peterson Cotractors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Peter Baker & Son Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Peter Baker & Son Co. averages 1.8 TCR (66% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Peter Baker & Son Co. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Peter Baker & Son Co. falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #45 safest of 266 Road construction employers in Illinois.

Peter Baker & Son Co. (163 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Peter Baker & Son Co.
Peter Baker & Son Co. (163 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Peter Baker & Son Co. has more employees than the Road 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
2024 2.6 1.3 4 0 0
2023 2.9 0.7 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Lake Bluff

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 27 employers in Lake Bluff, 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 Peterson Cotractors, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cox Paving LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cadillac Asphalt LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maintenance and OPS - Airport Rd 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mid-American Growers 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atomatic Mechanical Services, Inc. 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf Schaumburg IL 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2622 N Pulaski Rd/Climate Guard 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DDC3 1,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DCH4 1,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCI ENERGY SERVICES, LLC 533 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mariani Landscape 488 FTE
NAT-TCR Clean Work Services, LLC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI Phenix City 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Lanes 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Interfor Thomaston Division 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE YMCA in Burnsville 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DJZ3 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DAS9 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DAS8 163 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, 2021. 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.