HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION · Iowa

Ames Plant

Ames, IA · ~22 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ames Plant runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION workplace, earning a grade D.

Ames Plant: 5.5 TCR = 195% of HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ames Plant safety composite

Ames Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Ames Plant: 5.3 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.05× in 2024

Ames Plant's TCR rose 5.9 from 5.3 in 2016 to 11.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 195% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #61/111
  • PHOTO A&K Earthmovers
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: A&K Earthmovers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ames Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ames Plant averages 5.5 TCR (195% of the HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION BLS benchmark).

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

Ames Plant TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=0 · 2023=11.1 · 2024=11.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Ames Plant falls in its industry

4,078 HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONS establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #61 safest of 111 HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONS employers in Iowa.

Ames Plant (22 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Ames Plant
Ames Plant (22 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ames Plant has fewer employees than the HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION 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 11.2 11.2 2 0 0
2023 11.1 11.1 1 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.3 5.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IA · Ames

4,078 HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 A&K Earthmovers 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR M&M Excavating Co., Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Master Construction Co. Inc 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeside Industries - Portland 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR Fairfield Inn & Suites Nampa 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rugby Manufacturing 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RET-SEW Store 26 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NH Office 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southwest Tennessee EMC - Henderson 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bessemer Pipe Shop 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE TownePlace Suites Meridian 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 44 Ball Street Operating Company, LLC 22 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.