Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) · Pennsylvania

Shields Asphalt Paving

Name: Shields Asphalt Paving Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Valencia, PA · ~115 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.9
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Shields Asphalt Paving runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) workplace, earning a grade A.

Shields Asphalt Paving: 0.9 TCR = 33% of Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shields Asphalt Paving safety composite

Shields Asphalt Paving scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 53%), 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).

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: D 0.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

Shields Asphalt Paving held a steady TCR band

Shields Asphalt Paving's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.9 in 2019 to 0.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.9 · 2020=1.0 · 2021=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Valencia, PA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 33% of ind

DART 0.9 DART
RANK #16/196
PHOTO Carter Construction,…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carter Construction, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Pennsylvania employers → · Look up another →

This site

0.9
Carter Constru

0.9
Stacy and Witb

0.9
Wright County-

0.9
1804 Bois D'Ar

0.9

What this shows Shields Asphalt Paving averages 0.9 TCR (33% of the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS benchmark).

Shields Asphalt Paving TCR series: 2019=0.9 · 2020=1 · 2021=0.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Shields Asphalt Paving falls in its industry

4,078 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Pennsylvania alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 196 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, employers in Pennsylvania.

Shields Asphalt Paving (115 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Shields Asphalt Paving has more employees than the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, str 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
2021	0.9	0.9	1
2020	1.0	1.0	1
2019	0.9	0.9	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · PA · Valencia

4,078 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,692 rated employers in Pennsylvania with headcount on file · 10 employers in Valencia, PA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Carter Construction, LLC.	MONT BELVIEU, TX	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Stacy and Witbeck, Inc. - Ogden BRT	OGDEN, UT	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Wright County- Highway Department	BUFFALO, MN	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1804 Bois D'Arc	HONEY GROVE, TX	0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Esbenshade's Greenhouses, Inc. - Lititz	LITITZ	115 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WNDOB Windsor Office Building	ALLENTOWN	115 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Penn Hills Service Center	PITTSBURGH	115 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Michael F. Ronca & Sons, Inc.	BETHLEHEM	115 FTE
CITY-NEAR	The Arbors at St. Barnabas	Valencia	94 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Good Samaritan Hospice of Pittsburgh	Valencia	94 FTE
CITY-NEAR	GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE - COMMUNITY	Valencia	88 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Vorteq Coil Finishers Valencia	Valencia	52 FTE
NAT-TCR	Concentric 1575	Saginaw, MI	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	MSX International - Southfield	Southfield, MI	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Parsons Electric	Minneapolis, MN	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gardner-Connell	Franklin, MA	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	QCD Suffolk	Suffolk, VA	115 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Blackline Midland Office	Midland, TX	115 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Care Center of Pinellas Park	Pinellas Park, FL	115 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Flexitech-Illinois (BMI)	Bloomington, IL	115 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.