HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION · Iowa

Eia - Blue Grass

Blue Grass, IA · ~8 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eia - Blue Grass runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION workplace, earning a grade A.

Eia - Blue Grass: 1.3 TCR = 46% of HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eia - Blue Grass safety composite

Eia - Blue Grass scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−5.2

2020→2024

Eia - Blue Grass injury rate improved

Eia - Blue Grass's TCR fell 5.2 from 5.2 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Blue Grass, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/111
  • PHOTO Smith-Rowe, LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~8 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smith-Rowe, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eia - Blue Grass in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eia - Blue Grass averages 1.3 TCR (46% of the HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION BLS benchmark).

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

Eia - Blue Grass TCR series: 2020=5.2 · 2021=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Eia - Blue Grass falls in its industry

4,078 HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONS establishments

Safer than 78% 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 #9 safest of 111 HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONS employers in Iowa.

Eia - Blue Grass (8 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Eia - Blue Grass
Eia - Blue Grass (8 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Eia - Blue Grass has fewer employees than the HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IA · Blue Grass

4,078 HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 5 employers in Blue Grass, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Smith-Rowe, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NJTA T100.184 Bridge Deck Reconstruction & Misc Structural Improvements 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teichert Construction Pleasanton 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conti Civil, LLC 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cole Papers inc Sioux City 8 FTE
STATE-SIZE Estherville 8 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton 8 FTE
STATE-SIZE SODEXO AT P&G IOWA CITY ADMIN 8 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quest Liner-Blue Grass 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illowa Investment Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Selco, Inc. 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Safety Equipment Leasing Co. 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Ottawa County - Grand Haven Courthouse 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stanley Black and Decker Sedalia Operations 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ACME Constructors 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR R Medina Flc 1.3 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, 2021, 2020. 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.