Excavation contractors · Iowa

Baker Enterprises Inc.

Waverly, IA · ~59 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Baker Enterprises Inc. runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Baker Enterprises Inc.: 3.7 TCR = 132% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Baker Enterprises Inc. safety composite

Baker Enterprises Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Baker Enterprises Inc.: 0.0 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2023

Baker Enterprises Inc.'s TCR rose 8.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 8.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Waverly, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.7 · 132% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #18/28
  • PHOTO Glen Burnie, MD Office
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Glen Burnie, MD Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Baker Enterprises Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Baker Enterprises Inc. averages 3.7 TCR (132% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Baker Enterprises Inc. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=8.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Baker Enterprises Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 28 Excavation contractors employers in Iowa.

Baker Enterprises Inc. (59 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Baker Enterprises Inc.
Baker Enterprises Inc. (59 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Baker Enterprises Inc. has more employees than the Excavation contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 8.6 3.4 5 0 0
2022 6.5 1.6 4 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2020 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · IA · Waverly

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 32 employers in Waverly, 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 Glen Burnie, MD Office 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cobra Concrete Cutting Services Co. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dave Spurr Excavating, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warrenton, VA Office 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Viafield 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMVC 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8393-Monsanto Muscatine 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Building Crafts, Inc. (GPRO Region) 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waverly Store 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waverly Health Center 468 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1005 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle USA Waverly Iowa 236 FTE
NAT-TCR B&B Ice of Tampa Bay 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Felt Co Bethune 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Byerly Aviation 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fulton Fire Protection District 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Emerald Packing Company LLC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weathergard Window Company Inc 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Door County Coffee & Tea Company 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martell Sales Hyde location 59 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018. 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.