Footing and foundation concrete contractors · Iowa

Caruth Construction Inc.

Ames, IA · ~73 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Caruth Construction Inc. runs at 305% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Footing and foundation concrete contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Caruth Construction Inc.: 8.6 TCR = 305% of Footing and foundation concrete contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Caruth Construction Inc. safety composite

Caruth Construction Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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 8.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Caruth Construction Inc.: 6.5 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2020

Caruth Construction Inc.'s TCR rose 4.2 from 6.5 in 2019 to 10.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238110 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 305% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #23/32
  • PHOTO Groundworks Denver
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Groundworks Denver (0.0 TCR gap)

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Caruth Construction Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Caruth Construction Inc. averages 8.6 TCR (305% of the Footing and foundation concrete contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Caruth Construction Inc. TCR series: 2019=6.5 · 2020=10.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Caruth Construction Inc. falls in its industry

1,314 Footing and foundation concret establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 32 Footing and foundation concret employers in Iowa.

Caruth Construction Inc. (73 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Caruth Construction Inc.
Caruth Construction Inc. (73 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Caruth Construction Inc. has more employees than the Footing and foundation concrete contract median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2020 10.7 8.0 8 0 0
2019 6.5 3.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238110 · IA · Ames

1,314 Footing and foundation concrete contractors 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 Groundworks Denver 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Windsor Concrete, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olshan Foundation Repair & Waterproofing of Nashville, LP 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blueline Construction 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lone Tree 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Field Services (Public Services, Parks & Signs/Signals 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Davenport Electric Contract Company 73 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 WCTractor 14 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Smithton DC 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR STC:SC630 - SC630-Louisville, KY 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brittany Maids 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE True Value Woodland RDC 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tower 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE H.E. Hunewill Construction Co.,Inc. 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Parish Maintenance, Inc. Corporate 73 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: 2020, 2019. 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.