Blacktop work, residential and commercial driveway and parking area · North Carolina

Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC

Durham, NC · ~48 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Blacktop work, residential and commercial driveway and parking area workplace, earning a grade B.

Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC: 2.1 TCR = 76% of Blacktop work, residential and commercial driveway and parking area BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC safety composite

Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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)
D 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC held a steady TCR band

Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Durham, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 76% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/40
  • PHOTO CORE Facility Servic…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CORE Facility Services, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC averages 2.1 TCR (76% of the Blacktop work, residential and commercial driveway and parking area BLS benchmark).

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

Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC falls in its industry

1,634 Blacktop work, residential and establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 40 Blacktop work, residential and employers in North Carolina.

Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC (48 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC
Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC (48 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Ruston Paving Co., Inc - Durham, NC has fewer employees than the Blacktop work, residential and commercia median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.5 0.0 2 0 0
2021 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2020 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 7.2 5.4 4 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · NC · Durham

1,634 Blacktop work, residential and commercial driveway and parking area employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, NC · 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 CORE Facility Services, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spencer Construction 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodmanson Construction, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR FENCECORP, INC (ALL LOCATIONS) 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jones Family Farms 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bryan Wagoner Tree Farm LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Statesville Breeder Operation 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Morganton Hatchery 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR Columbian Distribution Services, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pine Manor 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Westlake Pipe & Fittings 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hollingsworth Paving Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chauvin Arnoux, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edge Manufacturing, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCS 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Custom Exteriors & Interiors 48 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, 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.