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

Tobey Construction

Herscher, IL · ~27 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tobey Construction runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Tobey Construction: 4.0 TCR = 142% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tobey Construction safety composite

Tobey Construction scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−4.5

2016→2020

Tobey Construction injury rate improved

Tobey Construction's TCR fell 4.5 from 10.4 in 2016 to 6.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.4 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Herscher, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 142% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #106/266
  • PHOTO John Schnittker (MI)
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: John Schnittker (MI) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tobey Construction in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tobey Construction averages 4.0 TCR (142% 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

Tobey Construction TCR series: 2016=10.4 · 2017=0 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=6 · BLS 2.8

Where Tobey Construction falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #106 safest of 266 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Illinois.

Tobey Construction (27 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Tobey Construction
Tobey Construction (27 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Tobey Construction 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
2020 6.0 6.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 10.4 3.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IL · Herscher

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 3 employers in Herscher, 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 John Schnittker (MI) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TAYLORSPORT 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highway 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cartier Location 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pizzo Native Plant Nursery, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE C070 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-R&D 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloomington 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tobey's Construction & Cartage 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR CYE Herscher 33 FTE
NAT-TCR HR Properties, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amsterdam Ready Mix 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Performance Metro NY Bldg 2 - 0612 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Orizon Aerostructures 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tft #541 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barker Auto Group 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tft #560 Nashua 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cafe Patachou Clay Terrace 27 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.