Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction · Iowa

Godbersen Smith Const. Co

Ida Grove, IA · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Godbersen Smith Const. Co runs at 869% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Godbersen Smith Const. Co: 24.3 TCR = 869% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Godbersen Smith Const. Co safety composite

Godbersen Smith Const. Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Godbersen Smith Const. Co: 22.9 → 25.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 25.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.15× in 2024

Godbersen Smith Const. Co's TCR rose 2.9 from 22.9 in 2020 to 25.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Ida Grove, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 24.3 · 869% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #111/111
  • PHOTO Public Works
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Works (0.1 TCR gap)

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Godbersen Smith Const. Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Godbersen Smith Const. Co averages 24.3 TCR (869% of the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Godbersen Smith Const. Co TCR series: 2020=22.9 · 2024=25.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Godbersen Smith Const. Co falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #111 safest of 111 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Iowa.

Godbersen Smith Const. Co (93 employees, TCR 24.3) 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 Godbersen Smith Const. Co
Godbersen Smith Const. Co (93 employees, TCR 24.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Godbersen Smith Const. Co has more employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge 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
2024 25.8 3.7 21 0 0
2020 22.9 3.7 25 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IA · Ida Grove

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 11 employers in Ida Grove, 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 Public Works 24.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works and Facilities 24.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 24.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maintenance Bureau - District 4 24.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corp 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Manchester 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centerville General Office 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newell Machinery 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Midwest Industries, Inc. 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gomaco Corporation Plant #2 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ida County Community Hospital Inc 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gomaco Corporation Plant #1 144 FTE
NAT-TCR Bear Creek Senior Living 24.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bristol Water Department 24.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-01897 24.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingsburg Healing Center 24.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Baril, Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE GF Management Company 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Temple East LLC 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE McLaughlin & Moran, Inc. 93 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.