Concrete paving, residential and commercial driveway and parking area · Illinois

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL

Springfield, IL · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Concrete paving, residential and commercial driveway and parking area workplace, earning a grade D.

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL: 4.1 TCR = 145% of Concrete paving, residential and commercial driveway and parking area BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL safety composite

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2020

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Springfield, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 145% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #43/59
  • PHOTO SA Quality Fence Ltd
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SA Quality Fence Ltd (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL averages 4.1 TCR (145% of the Concrete paving, residential and commercial driveway and parking area BLS benchmark).

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

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=11.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL falls in its industry

1,634 Concrete paving, residential a establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 59 Concrete paving, residential a employers in Illinois.

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL (23 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL
Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL (23 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 007 - Springfield, IL has fewer employees than the Concrete paving, residential and commerc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 11.7 7.8 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · IL · Springfield

1,634 Concrete paving, residential and commercial driveway and parking area employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 311 employers in Springfield, 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 SA Quality Fence Ltd 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BCC MAIN OFFICE 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Steel Contractor Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wagner Electric Sign Company 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Medical Center 4,160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Memorial Hospital 3,837 FTE
CITY-NEAR Springfield Clinic, LLP 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. John's Hospital 2,696 FTE
NAT-TCR E.E. Austin & Son, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 095-01 Maria's Holding Corporation 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Callahan Paving Corp. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR National Fuel Distribution Dunkirk Servicenter 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Herzog Railroad Services, Inc. - Falls City Shop 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Auto Safety House Tucson 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowell, AR Shop 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wheeler Trucking (Springfield) 23 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, 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.