Pothole filling, highway, road, street or bridge · Michigan

Van Buren County Road Commission

Lawrence, MI · ~52 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van Buren County Road Commission runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pothole filling, highway, road, street or bridge workplace, earning a grade F.

Van Buren County Road Commission: 6.8 TCR = 242% of Pothole filling, highway, road, street or bridge BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Buren County Road Commission safety composite

Van Buren County Road Commission scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Van Buren County Road Commission: 1.4 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.01× in 2022

Van Buren County Road Commission's TCR rose 7.6 from 1.4 in 2020 to 9.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Lawrence, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 242% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #85/139
  • PHOTO LaForge and Budd Con…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Van Buren County Road Commission in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Buren County Road Commission averages 6.8 TCR (242% of the Pothole filling, highway, road, street or bridge BLS benchmark).

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

Van Buren County Road Commission TCR series: 2020=1.4 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=9.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Van Buren County Road Commission falls in its industry

4,078 Pothole filling, highway, road establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #85 safest of 139 Pothole filling, highway, road employers in Michigan.

Van Buren County Road Commission (52 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Van Buren County Road Commission
Van Buren County Road Commission (52 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Van Buren County Road Commission has fewer employees than the Pothole filling, highway, road, street o 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
2022 9.1 6.8 3 1 0
2021 9.8 2.5 3 1 0
2020 1.4 1.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MI · Lawrence

4,078 Pothole filling, highway, road, street or bridge employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 4 employers in Lawrence, 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 LaForge and Budd Construction Co., Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR T.J. Campbell Construction Co. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vecellio & Grogan-Project #100-0168 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Idaho Traffic Safety, Inc. 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Webberville 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenwood Energy Center 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hastings SC 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dollins Construction Inc dba Cowhy Hayes 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR A&B Packing Equipment, Inc. 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Buren/Cass District Health Department 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Assured Plastics, inc. 38 FTE
NAT-TCR Ontario Healthcare Center 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ihop 1245 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100513 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Super Stop & Shop 0475 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clarker Inc 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE CPK Manufacturing, LLC 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dunham Price Industrial 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04200 - WM of Utah - Ogden 52 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.