Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors · Iowa

Cedar Valley Steel Inc.

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~53 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cedar Valley Steel Inc. runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Cedar Valley Steel Inc.: 5.4 TCR = 192% of Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cedar Valley Steel Inc. safety composite

Cedar Valley Steel Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−1.1

2016→2023

Cedar Valley Steel Inc. injury rate improved

Cedar Valley Steel Inc.'s TCR fell 1.1 from 5.4 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.4 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=7.8 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Cedar Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 192% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/13
  • PHOTO WG Construction Co.,…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WG Construction Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cedar Valley Steel Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cedar Valley Steel Inc. averages 5.4 TCR (192% of the Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Cedar Valley Steel Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=7.1 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=7.8 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Cedar Valley Steel Inc. falls in its industry

705 Structural steel erecting or i establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 13 Structural steel erecting or i employers in Iowa.

Cedar Valley Steel Inc. (53 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 Cedar Valley Steel Inc.
Cedar Valley Steel Inc. (53 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Cedar Valley Steel Inc. has fewer employees than the Structural steel erecting or iron work c median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 4.3 0.0 2 0 0
2022 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 7.8 3.9 4 0 0
2018 5.9 0.0 3 0 0
2017 7.1 3.5 4 0 0
2016 5.4 3.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · IA · Cedar Rapids

705 Structural steel erecting or iron work contractors 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR WG Construction Co., Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR OH Field 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALD Precast Corp. WHOLE COMPANY 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capitol Steel Fabricators, Inc. 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Natural Beauty Growers, LLC - Boyden IA 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith Fertilizer & Grain Co 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Streb Construction Co., Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caliber Concrete LLC 53 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 Wagoner Hospital Authority DBA Wagoner Community Hospital 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trinity Hills of Knoxville Senior Living 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR T & H Lemont, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Holdrege 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Paving Fabrics, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Malcolm Drilling UT 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feld Entertainment - Jessup Warehouse 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unified Abatement Services, LLC 53 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.