Low slope roofing installation · Iowa

Central States Roofing

Ames, IA · ~43 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central States Roofing runs at 472% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Low slope roofing installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Central States Roofing: 13.2 TCR = 472% of Low slope roofing installation BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central States Roofing safety composite

Central States Roofing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Central States Roofing: 12.4 → 16.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.16× in 2024

Central States Roofing's TCR rose 4.0 from 12.4 in 2016 to 16.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238160 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.2 · 472% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #15/18
  • PHOTO Security-Luebke Roof…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Security-Luebke Roofing Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Central States Roofing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central States Roofing averages 13.2 TCR (472% of the Low slope roofing installation BLS benchmark).

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

Central States Roofing TCR series: 2016=12.4 · 2017=15.3 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=10.4 · 2021=14.5 · 2022=14.8 · 2023=13.8 · 2024=16.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Central States Roofing falls in its industry

1,723 Low slope roofing installation establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 18 Low slope roofing installation employers in Iowa.

Central States Roofing (43 employees, TCR 13.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Central States Roofing
Central States Roofing (43 employees, TCR 13.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Central States Roofing has fewer employees than the Low slope roofing installation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2024 16.4 2.0 8 0 0
2023 13.8 2.3 6 0 0
2022 14.8 10.5 7 0 0
2021 14.5 2.4 6 0 0
2019 10.4 4.2 5 0 0
2018 8.1 8.1 3 0 0
2017 15.3 6.1 5 0 0
2016 12.4 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238160 · IA · Ames

1,723 Low slope roofing installation 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 Security-Luebke Roofing Inc. 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR GAGNON ROOFING, INC 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR the Melanson company, a Tecta America Company LLC 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charles Roy Roofing, Inc. 13.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms North 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koester Construction Company Incorporated 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Contracting Services 43 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 Duke Road 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR New Haven Correctional Center 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Aegis of Newcastle 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Richardson Steel 13.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE LMC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roscommon County Road Commission 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aurora Ridge Dairy, LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridgewater 43 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 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.