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

Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc.

Aptos, CA · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc. runs at 368% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc.: 10.3 TCR = 368% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc. safety composite

Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc.: 7.6 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2024

Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.2 from 7.6 in 2022 to 10.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Aptos, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 368% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #524/551
  • PHOTO Swingen Construction…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swingen Construction Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc. averages 10.3 TCR (368% 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

Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc. TCR series: 2022=7.6 · 2023=12.5 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #524 safest of 551 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in California.

Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc. (23 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc.
Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc. (23 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Santa Cruz Underground & Paving, Inc. has fewer employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge median and a higher 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 10.8 10.8 2 0 0
2023 12.5 0.0 2 0 0
2022 7.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · CA · Aptos

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 16 employers in Aptos, CA · 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 Swingen Construction Company 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAR-ALLEN CONCRETE PRODUCTS INC 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lehman Construction LLC 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arkansas Sign and Barricade 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE James Diedrich Farms 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Fanucchi Farms,LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN2 - 04 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kyer Farms 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR First Alarm 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0025-0025-00640 FAC-00640-APTOS-CA 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY 0025 0640 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00640 103 FTE
NAT-TCR Dundas Mn - 3177 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Water Well Technologies, LLC 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Ford Professional Bldg 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amware Pallet Services - Richmond 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fairview Elevator 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Montpelier Grain Elevator 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Havana Grain River Elevator 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lassus Store 34 23 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.