Bridge construction · Illinois

Stark Excavating Inc.

Bloomington, IL · ~280 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stark Excavating Inc. runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bridge construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Stark Excavating Inc.: 3.5 TCR = 123% of Bridge construction BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stark Excavating Inc. safety composite

Stark Excavating Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−0.5

2016→2024

Stark Excavating Inc. injury rate improved

Stark Excavating Inc.'s TCR fell 0.5 from 2.7 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.7 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Bloomington, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #89/266
  • PHOTO Balfour Beatty - Eff…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~280 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Balfour Beatty - Effingham Parkway (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stark Excavating Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stark Excavating Inc. averages 3.5 TCR (123% of the Bridge construction BLS benchmark).

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

Stark Excavating Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Stark Excavating Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Bridge construction establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #89 safest of 266 Bridge construction employers in Illinois.

Stark Excavating Inc. (280 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Stark Excavating Inc.
Stark Excavating Inc. (280 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Stark Excavating Inc. has more employees than the Bridge construction 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 2.2 1.5 6 0 0
2023 2.1 1.4 6 0 0
2022 2.7 2.0 8 0 0
2021 3.2 2.0 8 0 0
2020 6.5 3.6 15 1 0
2019 5.2 3.5 12 0 0
2018 4.3 2.6 9 1 0
2017 2.2 0.9 5 0 0
2016 2.7 1.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Bloomington

4,078 Bridge construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 182 employers in Bloomington, IL · 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 Balfour Beatty - Effingham Parkway 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shields Asphalt Paving Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCLLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cox Paving LLC 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DWM-39th and Iron Central Dispatch New Construction | 1424 W. Pershing Rd. 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Chicago - Department of Water Management - 4900 W Sunnyside Ave 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Source One Events 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sterling Steel Company 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Medical Center 989 FTE
CITY-NEAR OSF Saint Joseph Medical Center 919 FTE
CITY-NEAR The City of Bloomington 901 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bloomington Public Schools, District 87 855 FTE
NAT-TCR Cypress Cove Care Center, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cargill Kansas City Oilseed Processing 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 2754 - Fort Worth 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - RAD1 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ochsner Health Center - Elmwood A 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kautex - CWC 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - AZA4 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ghilotti Bros., Inc. 280 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.