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

Superior Asphalt, Inc.

Grand Rapids, MI · ~104 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Superior Asphalt, Inc. runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) workplace, earning a grade F.

Superior Asphalt, Inc.: 6.0 TCR = 214% of Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Asphalt, Inc. safety composite

Superior Asphalt, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Superior Asphalt, Inc.: 4.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Superior Asphalt, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.0 from 4.0 in 2018 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 214% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #72/139
  • PHOTO Bluffton Paving Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bluffton Paving Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Superior Asphalt, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Asphalt, Inc. averages 6.0 TCR (214% of the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS benchmark).

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

Superior Asphalt, Inc. TCR series: 2018=4 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=8.7 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=5 · BLS 2.8

Where Superior Asphalt, Inc. falls in its industry

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

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 139 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, employers in Michigan.

Superior Asphalt, Inc. (104 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Superior Asphalt, Inc.
Superior Asphalt, Inc. (104 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Superior Asphalt, Inc. has more employees than the Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, str 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 5.0 4.0 5 0 0
2023 4.8 2.9 5 0 0
2022 8.7 5.6 9 2 0
2021 7.5 4.5 10 0 0
2018 4.0 4.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MI · Grand Rapids

4,078 Asphalt paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, MI · 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 Bluffton Paving Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wolf Industries 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR O'Malley Construction Inc 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Diama-Shield, LLC 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Electrical Contractors, Inc 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Opus Packaging - Jackson 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2446_4895 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR Palm Bay Hospital 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CAS016 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sabel Steel Dothan 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Harris Masonry, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cota & Cota INC 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landmark Nursing and Rehab 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flash Plastering, Inc. 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piqua Operations 104 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, 2018. 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.