Excavation contractors · Iowa

Fye Excavating, Inc.

Sperry, IA · ~40 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fye Excavating, Inc. runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Fye Excavating, Inc.: 2.6 TCR = 94% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fye Excavating, Inc. safety composite

Fye Excavating, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−2.2

2017→2024

Fye Excavating, Inc. injury rate improved

Fye Excavating, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.2 from 2.2 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.2 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Sperry, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 94% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/28
  • PHOTO Field Employees
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Field Employees (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fye Excavating, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fye Excavating, Inc. averages 2.6 TCR (94% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Fye Excavating, Inc. TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Fye Excavating, Inc. falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #14 safest of 28 Excavation contractors employers in Iowa.

Fye Excavating, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Fye Excavating, Inc.
Fye Excavating, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Fye Excavating, Inc. has fewer employees than the Excavation contractors 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2021 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2020 6.9 2.3 3 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2018 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2017 2.2 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · IA · Sperry

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Field Employees 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diversified Construction 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Land Clearing Specialists, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rikoshea Contracting Inc. 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hill Farm 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Cogen 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allamakee-Clayton Electric Cooperative 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Access Energy Cooperative 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Lexplastics LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR IMPACT Community Action 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Seckinger Forest Products Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 012-MOTIE Bunker 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Aviation - SDF 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Southpoint 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crushproof Tubing Co 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olshan Foundation Repair Co. of Kansas City LLC 40 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.