Concrete finishing · California

Shaw & Sons, Inc.

Costa Mesa, CA · ~170 workers · 4 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

Shaw & Sons, Inc. runs at 77% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Concrete finishing workplace, earning a grade B.

Shaw & Sons, Inc.: 2.1 TCR = 77% of Concrete finishing BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shaw & Sons, Inc. safety composite

Shaw & Sons, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

Shaw & Sons, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Shaw & Sons, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.2 from 1.4 in 2020 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.4 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=4.3 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238110 · Costa Mesa, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 77% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #39/166
  • PHOTO Larson-Danielson Con…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Larson-Danielson Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shaw & Sons, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shaw & Sons, Inc. averages 2.1 TCR (77% of the Concrete finishing BLS benchmark).

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

Shaw & Sons, Inc. TCR series: 2020=1.4 · 2021=1.3 · 2022=4.3 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Shaw & Sons, Inc. falls in its industry

1,314 Concrete finishing establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 166 Concrete finishing employers in California.

Shaw & Sons, Inc. (170 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Shaw & Sons, Inc.
Shaw & Sons, Inc. (170 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Shaw & Sons, Inc. has more employees than the Concrete finishing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 1.6 0.6 3 0 0
2022 4.3 4.3 8 0 0
2021 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2020 1.4 0.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238110 · CA · Costa Mesa

1,314 Concrete finishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 185 employers in Costa Mesa, 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 Larson-Danielson Construction 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Desert Vista Concrete, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palatial Concrete Ltd. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zapalac/Reed Construction Company, LP 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MERRILL FARMS LLC 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE RICHMOND SERVICE CENTER 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE DiCarlo Concrete, Inc. 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anderson Charnesky Structural Steel, Inc. 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACIFIC AMPHITHEATER 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR OC Fair & Event Center 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Costa Mesa 670 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACWEST Security Services 567 FTE
NAT-TCR Kold Draft International, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JI&M Rockett 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Torque Control, Inc 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR American Engineering Testing 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chicago Downers Grove 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Federal-Mogul Maryville Manufacturing 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE SENCO Construction, Inc. 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE 06612 - Artistree North Carolina 170 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.