Commercial building construction · Iowa

Art's Way Scientific, Inc.

Monona, IA · ~23 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Art's Way Scientific, Inc. runs at 361% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Art's Way Scientific, Inc.: 10.5 TCR = 361% of Commercial building construction BLS 2.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Art's Way Scientific, Inc. safety composite

Art's Way Scientific, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.1

2018→2024

Art's Way Scientific, Inc. injury rate improved

Art's Way Scientific, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.1 from 10.8 in 2018 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 19.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.8 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=14.9 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=19.0 · 2024=8.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Monona, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 361% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #65/75
  • PHOTO William D Hillen a C…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: William D Hillen a Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Art's Way Scientific, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Art's Way Scientific, Inc. averages 10.5 TCR (361% of the Commercial building construction BLS benchmark).

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

Art's Way Scientific, Inc. TCR series: 2018=10.8 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=14.9 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=19 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 2.9

Where Art's Way Scientific, Inc. falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

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 75 Commercial building constructi employers in Iowa.

Art's Way Scientific, Inc. (23 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Art's Way Scientific, Inc.
Art's Way Scientific, Inc. (23 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Art's Way Scientific, Inc. has fewer employees than the Commercial building construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 8.8 4.4 2 0 0
2023 19.0 7.6 5 0 0
2022 9.4 4.7 2 0 0
2021 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 14.9 5.0 3 0 0
2019 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2018 10.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · IA · Monona

4,692 Commercial building construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 6 employers in Monona, 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 William D Hillen a Corporation 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 14251 CASTAWAY CONSTRUCTION RESTORATION LLC 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joe Daniels Construction Co., Inc. 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manfreda Construction Corp 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monona 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clayton County Recycling 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gardenview Place 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Garden View Senior Community 28 FTE
NAT-TCR Haskell Care Center 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mosed - Sedalia 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ncgas - Gastonia 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MOM's Organic Market - Jessup 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 1417 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clermont Hatchery 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Camdenton 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Witwer Construction, Inc. 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.