Building demolition · Iowa

Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc.

Name: Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Cedar Falls, IA · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.5
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc. runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Building demolition workplace, earning a grade D.

Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc.: 4.5 TCR = 161% of Building demolition BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc. safety composite

Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc.: 4.8 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2021

Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.1 from 4.8 in 2016 to 9.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Cedar Falls, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 161% of ind

DART 6.6 DART
RANK #22/28
PHOTO East Coast Concrete …
BOOK 5y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: East Coast Concrete Specialties, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc. averages 4.5 TCR (161% of the Building demolition BLS benchmark).

Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=0 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=5.7 · 2021=9.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Building demolition establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 28 Building demolition employers in Iowa.

Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc. (33 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Benton's Sand & Gravel, Inc. has fewer employees than the Building demolition 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
2021	9.9	6.6	3
2019	5.7	5.7	2
2018	2.1	2.1	1
2017	0.0	0.0	0
2016	4.8	4.8	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · IA · Cedar Falls

1,750 Building demolition employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 88 employers in Cedar Falls, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	East Coast Concrete Specialties, Inc.	JESSUP, MD	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Main Office	ARLINGTON, TX	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Thorne's Excavating Co., LLC	LEBANON, TN	4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Path Light Pro, LLC	WINTER SPRINGS, FL	4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Beck's Marshalltown	MARSHALLTOWN	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Select Genetics IA Hatchery & Logistics	OSCEOLA	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	East-Central Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative	URBANA	33 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Keokuk Contractors LLC	KEOKUK	33 FTE
CITY-NEAR	John Deere Waterloo Works Product Engineering Center	Cedar Falls	1,508 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0590 - Cedar Falls IA DC	Cedar Falls	1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0590 - Cedar Falls DC	Cedar Falls	936 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Western Home Services	Cedar Falls	752 FTE
NAT-TCR	Evolution Ag LLC - Plain City	Plain City, OH	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mvso Mv Ft.Mohave So Sub-St/Animal	Mohave Valley, AZ	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kgpw Public Works Offices	Kingman, AZ	4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Portland	Wilsonvlle, OR	4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Addvantage Triton LLC	Pembroke Park, FL	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Straus Knitting Mills	St. Croix Falls, WI	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Philadelphia Maintenance Center	Philadelphia, PA	33 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Alliance Plumbing	Troutdale, OR	33 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: 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.