Highway construction · Illinois

Plote Construction Inc.

Hoffman Estates, IL · ~343 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plote Construction Inc. runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade B.

Plote Construction Inc.: 1.6 TCR = 56% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plote Construction Inc. safety composite

Plote Construction Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Plote Construction Inc.: 1.6 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2024

Plote Construction Inc.'s TCR rose 0.5 from 1.6 in 2016 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Hoffman Estates, IL AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 56% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #39/266
  • PHOTO Central Tennessee Area
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~343 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Tennessee Area (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plote Construction Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plote Construction Inc. averages 1.6 TCR (56% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

Plote Construction Inc. TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=1.8 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=0.5 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Plote Construction Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 73% 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 #39 safest of 266 Highway construction employers in Illinois.

Plote Construction Inc. (343 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Plote Construction Inc.
Plote Construction Inc. (343 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Plote Construction Inc. has more employees than the Highway 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 2.1 1.9 8 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 2 0 0
2022 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2021 2.8 1.9 9 0 0
2017 1.8 1.8 6 0 0
2016 1.6 1.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Hoffman Estates

4,078 Highway construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 88 employers in Hoffman Estates, 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 Central Tennessee Area 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 90009090 W28th Street Substation 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HB Farmer Foundation 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beam Site Prep, LLC 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Leopardo Companies, Inc. 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1421 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perry Memorial Hospital 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shawnee CC 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDK - Hoffman 1,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL009 ASCENSION HEALTH ST ALEXIUS MEDICAL CENTER 1,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL009 1,567 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hoffman Estates Remote 673 FTE
NAT-TCR Independent School District 2897 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Scotts Company - Vance 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR C&L Contractors, LTD. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Force Environmental, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lutheran Homes of Oconomowoc 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kerr Corp 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bullet Line, LLC. 343 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital of Thousand Oaks 343 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, 2017, 2016. 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.