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

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 109 - Chicago, IL

Chicago, IL · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 109 - Chicago, IL runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Concrete paving, residential and commercial driveway and parking area workplace, earning a grade B.

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 109 - Chicago, IL: 2.0 TCR = 70% of Concrete paving, residential and commercial driveway and parking area BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 109 - Chicago, IL safety composite

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 109 - Chicago, 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.42 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 109 - Chicago, IL: 3.4 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.26× in 2020

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 109 - Chicago, IL's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.4 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Chicago, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 70% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #36/59
  • PHOTO 019 Long Beach CA …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 019 Long Beach CA Barnhart Crane and Rigging LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 109 - Chicago, 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 109 - Chicago, IL averages 2.0 TCR (70% 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 109 - Chicago, IL TCR series: 2016=3.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 109 - Chicago, IL falls in its industry

1,634 Concrete paving, residential a establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #36 safest of 59 Concrete paving, residential a employers in Illinois.

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 109 - Chicago, IL (25 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 109 - Chicago, IL
Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 109 - Chicago, IL (25 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Western Specialty Contractors - Branch 109 - Chicago, 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 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · IL · Chicago

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 · 2,934 employers in Chicago, 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 019 Long Beach CA Barnhart Crane and Rigging LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US257: Unistrut - Tampa 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Lining Technology, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aloha Custom Pools 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Emerald Mound Lebanon Fire Department 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steve Piper and Sons, Inc 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - IL Meter Services North 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Headquarters 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago Public Schools 49,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chicago/Corporate 18,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Illinois at Chicago 13,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Health Service UIC UIC Campus 12,732 FTE
NAT-TCR 700 Alderwood 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wesco - Haas Group International Tempe Distribution Center 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rayonier AM-Fernandina Mill 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Steel DHO 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Center Line Technologies 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mactac Kansas City Warehouse 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Napa Detroit Main Store 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Interstate Reinforcing Steel 25 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.