Concrete paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) · Iowa

Absolute Group - Concrete Division

Granger, IA · ~109 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Absolute Group - Concrete Division runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Concrete paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) workplace, earning a grade F.

Absolute Group - Concrete Division: 6.1 TCR = 219% of Concrete paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Absolute Group - Concrete Division safety composite

Absolute Group - Concrete Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Absolute Group - Concrete Division held a steady TCR band

Absolute Group - Concrete Division's TCR held near 0.0 from 6.1 in 2023 to 6.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.1 · 2024=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Granger, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 219% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #65/111
  • PHOTO City of Chicago Heig…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Chicago Heights Public Works (0.0 TCR gap)

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Absolute Group - Concrete Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Absolute Group - Concrete Division averages 6.1 TCR (219% of the Concrete paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) BLS benchmark).

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

Absolute Group - Concrete Division TCR series: 2023=6.1 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Absolute Group - Concrete Division falls in its industry

4,078 Concrete paving (i.e., highway establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 111 Concrete paving (i.e., highway employers in Iowa.

Absolute Group - Concrete Division (109 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Absolute Group - Concrete Division
Absolute Group - Concrete Division (109 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Absolute Group - Concrete Division has more employees than the Concrete paving (i.e., highway, road, st 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
2024 6.2 6.2 7 0 0
2023 6.1 5.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IA · Granger

4,078 Concrete paving (i.e., highway, road, street, public sidewalk) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 7 employers in Granger, IA · 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 City of Chicago Heights Public Works 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mumford & Miller Concrete, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GM & Sons, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller & Miller, Inc. 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2515-Grinnell, IA 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Foods 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Engineering-Council Bluffs 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valent Biosciences Osage 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Holdco Granger 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Absolute Group - Erosion Division 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pinacial Health CAre 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Castle Logistics LLC 55 FTE
NAT-TCR Complete Care at villa Pines 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pictsweet Ogden 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR United Brothers Development Corporation 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative - Eugene 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lincoln Electric Automation Coldwater 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belmont Village Sabre Springs 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avantara Huron 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kre-Bsl Husky Split Rock Operation LLC 109 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.