Industry profile · NAICS 237310

Road construction

Workplace injury rates across 4,563 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

4,563
Employers
4.3
Avg TCR
2.8
BLS benchmark
61,863
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Road construction average 4.3 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 1.5 times the BLS national benchmark of 2.8.

4.3
avg TCR · reporting employers
2.8
BLS national benchmark
4,563
employers reporting
61,863
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Road construction Safety Data Reveals

The Road construction sector (NAICS 237310) encompasses 4,563 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 61,863 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 4.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 2.8 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 4.3 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Road construction that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
City of Roeville DPW/Mechanics Roseville, MI F 28.7
City of Granite City Public Works Department Granite City, IL F 27.7
Maryland Glen Burnie, MD F 27.5
RMA- Fleet Central Shop Visalia, CA F 26.3
D1 Stevenson Yard Mccook, IL F 26.3
East Haven Public Works East Haven, CT F 26.3
L S Lee, Inc Richmond, VA F 25.8
Public Works - D1 Central Shop Yreka, CA F 25.3
Gogebic County Bessemer, MI F 25.3
D1 I-57 Yard Markham, IL F 25.2
carl Rose Paving Elkin, NC F 25.2
Highways & Bridges Shelton, CT F 25.2
Town of Waterford Public Works Department Waterford, CT F 24.6
Maintenance Bureau - District 4 Orland Park, IL F 24.6
Godbersen Smith Const. Co Ida Grove, IA F 24.3
Public Works Shelton, CT F 24.2
Public Works and Facilities Bloomfield, CT F 24.2
Main Office Franklin, NH F 24.1
R2 Albany Albany, OR F 23.8
Honolulu Corporation Yard Aiea, HI F 23.7
D1 Eisenhower Yard Chicago, IL F 23.6
Department of Public Services Monroe, MI F 23.6
D5 Leverett Yard Champaign, IL F 23.6
Schermer Construction Inc Hoquiam, WA F 23.5
F R Lafayette Inc Essex Junction, VT F 23.3
Gogebic County Road Commission Bessemer, MI F 23.2
PTM Riverside, CA F 22.9
Pearl City Corporation Yard Pearl City, HI F 22.9
RCC Traffic, LLC Oklahoma City, OK F 22.9
Department of Public Works/Parks Windsor, CT F 22.6
Cramer and Associates Grimes, IA F 22.2
Maintenance Bureau - D5 Riverdale, IL F 22.2
Tennessee Guardrail Knoxville, TN F 21.9
D8 Columbia Yard Columbia, IL F 21.9
County of Sacramento - Department of Transportation Sacramento, CA F 21.8
Sinnott Contracting, LLC Proctor, MN F 21.6
D1 Dan Ryan Yard Chicago, IL F 21.5
D8 Hamel Yard Hamel, IL F 21.4
Marion County Highway Department Jasper, TN F 21.2
D3 Ladd Yard Spring Valley, IL F 20.9
Prairie Construction,L.L.C. Saltillo, MS F 20.8
City of Chicago - CDOT, Bridges Chicago, IL F 20.8
Public Works - Road Maintenance Martinez, CA F 20.7
City Of Sacramento-Street Maintenance Division Roll-Up (150016) Sacramento, CA F 20.5
West Haven Public Works West Haven, CT F 20.1
City of Lonsdale Lonsdale, MN F 20.1
D5 Danville Yard Danville, IL F 20.0
City Of Meriden Public Works Meriden, CT F 20.0
Elderlee, Inc. Oaks Corners, NY F 19.9
D3 Pontiac Yard Pontiac, IL F 19.8
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This sector averages 4.3 against a BLS benchmark of 2.8 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.