Grading construction sites · Iowa

Con-struct

Ames, IA · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Con-struct runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grading construction sites workplace, earning a grade D.

Con-struct: 4.0 TCR = 141% of Grading construction sites BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Con-struct safety composite

Con-struct scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

Con-struct: 2.0 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2018

Con-struct's TCR rose 3.8 from 2.0 in 2017 to 5.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 141% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #19/28
  • PHOTO Cherokee Enterprises…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cherokee Enterprises, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Con-struct in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Con-struct averages 4.0 TCR (141% of the Grading construction sites BLS benchmark).

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

Con-struct TCR series: 2017=2 · 2018=5.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Con-struct falls in its industry

1,750 Grading construction sites establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 28 Grading construction sites employers in Iowa.

Con-struct (90 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 Con-struct
Con-struct (90 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Con-struct has more employees than the Grading construction sites 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2018 5.9 4.7 5 0 0
2017 2.0 1.0 2 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · IA · Ames

1,750 Grading construction sites 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 Cherokee Enterprises, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JP Excavating 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SLT 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Horizons Enterprises, LLC 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cactus Family Farms 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Urbandale South 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wyckoff Heating & Cooling 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graettinger 90 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 Linde - Cartersville 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Linde - Gonzales 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dakkota Louisville Chamberlain 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Corpus-Hct-Corpus Christi 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE HEM, Inc. - HEMSAW (HEM-Central) 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE B-X Niantic LLC 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales -Shawnee Village 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Materials Transportation 90 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.