Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground · Iowa

Creek Hiawatha

Hiawatha, IA · ~14 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Creek Hiawatha runs at 300% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground workplace, earning a grade F.

Creek Hiawatha: 8.4 TCR = 300% of Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Creek Hiawatha safety composite

Creek Hiawatha scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−16.8

2023→2024

Creek Hiawatha injury rate improved

Creek Hiawatha's TCR fell 16.8 from 16.8 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=16.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237130 · Hiawatha, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 300% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/19
  • PHOTO Terra Contracting
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Terra Contracting (0.0 TCR gap)

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Creek Hiawatha in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Creek Hiawatha averages 8.4 TCR (300% of the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground BLS benchmark).

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

Creek Hiawatha TCR series: 2023=16.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Creek Hiawatha falls in its industry

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 19 Cable laying (e.g., cable tele employers in Iowa.

Creek Hiawatha (14 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Creek Hiawatha
Creek Hiawatha (14 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Creek Hiawatha has fewer employees than the Cable laying (e.g., cable television, el median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 16.8 16.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237130 · IA · Hiawatha

1,605 Cable laying (e.g., cable television, electricity, marine, telephone), including underground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 54 employers in Hiawatha, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Terra Contracting 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-CA-Bakersfield-5206 Young St 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Power Contracting Oklahoma Statewide Operations 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR KMM Salem, OR 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clinton IA WWTP 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfield Contractors LLC - Clermont, IA 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAVENPORT PLANT 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riley Paint Company 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR CCB Packaging 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR HAWKEYE AREA COMM ACTION PROGRAM, INC 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR CEC 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crystal Group Inc 240 FTE
NAT-TCR Floca - Ocala Center 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sourdough Express, Inc. / Anchorage 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mdqua - Quad Avenue 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Department 8.4 TCR

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. 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.