Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway · Iowa

Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department

Dubuque, IA · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department runs at 314% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway workplace, earning a grade F.

Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department: 8.8 TCR = 314% of Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department safety composite

Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−5.5

2016→2018

Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department injury rate improved

Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department's TCR fell 5.5 from 10.6 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.6 · 2017=10.6 · 2018=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 314% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #88/111
  • PHOTO D6 Taylorville Yard
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D6 Taylorville Yard (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department averages 8.8 TCR (314% of the Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS benchmark).

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

Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department TCR series: 2016=10.6 · 2017=10.6 · 2018=5.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department falls in its industry

4,078 Resurfacing, highway, road, st establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #88 safest of 111 Resurfacing, highway, road, st employers in Iowa.

Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department (48 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department
Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department (48 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Dubuque County Secondary Roads Department has fewer employees than the Resurfacing, highway, road, street, brid median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2017 10.6 8.0 4 0 0
2016 10.6 2.7 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IA · Dubuque

4,078 Resurfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, 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 D6 Taylorville Yard 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JJK Construction, LLC-Main 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ROTHA Contracting Company, Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bigane Paving Co. 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE J&J Cattle Co 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMVC Management Services 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Administration Building 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greiner Buildings, Inc. 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR Langdon Place of Dover 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlotte (Pioneer Ave.) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Cruise - LA 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Earland 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Smith Systems Transportation, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate office 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE CNS Emeryville Clinic & Residential 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Globe Footwear, LLC 48 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, 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.