Other Building Material Dealers · Iowa

GJL-ALTOONA

Altoona, IA · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GJL-ALTOONA runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Building Material Dealers workplace, earning a grade D.

GJL-ALTOONA: 6.0 TCR = 176% of Other Building Material Dealers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GJL-ALTOONA safety composite

GJL-ALTOONA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

GJL-ALTOONA: 4.2 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2024

GJL-ALTOONA's TCR rose 3.5 from 4.2 in 2023 to 7.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Altoona, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 176% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #11/19
  • PHOTO 201 SANTA FE DRIVE
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 201 SANTA FE DRIVE (0.0 TCR gap)

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GJL-ALTOONA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GJL-ALTOONA averages 6.0 TCR (176% of the Other Building Material Dealers BLS benchmark).

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

GJL-ALTOONA TCR series: 2023=4.2 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.4

Where GJL-ALTOONA falls in its industry

1,643 Other Building Material Dealer establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 19 Other Building Material Dealer employers in Iowa.

GJL-ALTOONA (23 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate GJL-ALTOONA
GJL-ALTOONA (23 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

GJL-ALTOONA has fewer employees than the Other Building Material Dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 7.8 7.8 2 0 0
2023 4.2 4.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · IA · Altoona

1,643 Other Building Material Dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 52 employers in Altoona, 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 201 SANTA FE DRIVE 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hammond Lumber Company - Damariscotta 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magbee Contractors Supply Ball Ground 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walker Zanger, Inc. 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casion 1,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventureland Resort 1,040 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino, Inc. 965 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Meadows Racetrack, Casino & Hotel 877 FTE
NAT-TCR The Federal Metal Co. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Art Hotel 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Avamere Court at Keizer 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GSI Pool Finishes, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 11402 Fallbrook 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Micro Mold 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Woodward Lincoln Food Servic 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacobs Glass 23 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. 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.