Plumbers · Iowa

Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17 runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Plumbers workplace, earning a grade F.

Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17: 7.6 TCR = 270% of Plumbers BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17 safety composite

Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17: 5.0 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2023

Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17's TCR rose 5.1 from 5.0 in 2022 to 10.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Cedar Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 270% of ind

  • DART 10.1 DART
  • RANK #74/94
  • PHOTO Main Office
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17 averages 7.6 TCR (270% of the Plumbers BLS benchmark).

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

Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17 TCR series: 2022=5 · 2023=10.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17 falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbers establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #74 safest of 94 Plumbers employers in Iowa.

Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17 (19 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17
Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17 (19 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Benjamin Franklin Plumbing #17 has fewer employees than the Plumbers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2023 10.1 10.1 2 0 0
2022 5.0 5.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · IA · Cedar Rapids

5,793 Plumbers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 466 employers in Cedar Rapids, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Main Office 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arctic Air Conditioning 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CroppMetcalfe 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holmes Mechanical Inc. 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH15 Soybean Growth Chamber Building 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power Cooperative 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE main 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE) 6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave 6,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRST EXPEDITED INC 3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Methodist Hospital 2,949 FTE
NAT-TCR Prescott Lakes Golf Course 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR New Orange Hills 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dayton Material Recovery Facility 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ad Graphics LLC 7.6 TCR

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. 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.