Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction · New Jersey

Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc.

Pilesgrove, NJ · ~312 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc. runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc.: 2.3 TCR = 80% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc. safety composite

Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2016→2023

Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc. injury rate improved

Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.8 from 2.6 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.6 · 2017=3.6 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Pilesgrove, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 80% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #25/73
  • PHOTO Melway Paving
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~312 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Melway Paving (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc. averages 2.3 TCR (80% 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

Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=3.6 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=1.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 73 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in New Jersey.

Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc. (312 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc.
Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc. (312 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Richard E. Pierson Construction Co, Inc. 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
2023 1.9 1.6 7 0 0
2022 0.9 0.6 3 0 0
2017 3.6 3.6 6 1 0
2016 2.6 2.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · NJ · Pilesgrove

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 7 employers in Pilesgrove, NJ · 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 Melway Paving 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Department of Public Works, Bureau of Contract Administration, Public Works Building 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Simon - Ogallala 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dykes Paving & Construction Company Inc 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SHOPRITE OF PARAMUS #160 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE DR LEONARDS HEALTHCARE CORP 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE GO - NJNG 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10279 Paramus 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR R.E. PIERSON CONSTRUCTION - NJ 330 FTE
CITY-NEAR RICHARD E. PIERSON CONSTRUCTION - DE 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR R.E. PIERSON CONSTRUCTION - PA 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR R.E. PIERSON CONSTRUCTION - DE 73 FTE
NAT-TCR 3835 Main LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Connor Distributing- Three Lakes Division 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kerr Corporation 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DICKEY-john Corporation 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Benson's Bakery 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crane 1 Services 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE LaJoy Group, Sterling Heights 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution Center 312 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: 2023, 2022, 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.