Water and Sewer line · Iowa

Grundman Hicks LLC

Cherokee, IA · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grundman Hicks LLC runs at 409% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water and Sewer line workplace, earning a grade F.

Grundman Hicks LLC: 11.4 TCR = 409% of Water and Sewer line BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grundman Hicks LLC safety composite

Grundman Hicks LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Grundman Hicks LLC: 0.0 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 26.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2019

Grundman Hicks LLC's TCR rose 10.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 10.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 26.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Cherokee, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 409% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #24/32
  • PHOTO DW Excavating
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DW Excavating (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grundman Hicks LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grundman Hicks LLC averages 11.4 TCR (409% of the Water and Sewer line BLS benchmark).

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

Grundman Hicks LLC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=26.7 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=10.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Grundman Hicks LLC falls in its industry

1,614 Water and Sewer line establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #24 safest of 32 Water and Sewer line employers in Iowa.

Grundman Hicks LLC (20 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Grundman Hicks LLC
Grundman Hicks LLC (20 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Grundman Hicks LLC has fewer employees than the Water and Sewer line 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
2019 10.1 5.1 2 0 0
2018 8.9 8.9 2 0 0
2017 26.7 17.8 6 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · IA · Cherokee

1,614 Water and Sewer line employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 24 employers in Cherokee, 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 DW Excavating 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hydro Resources - Mid-Continent, Inc., Sunray 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mercer Construction Company 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dorner Inc. 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Skyline Pork, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE J-Six Farms Iowa 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos Jacksonville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newell Pig II 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grocery-Cherokee 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherokee Regional Medical Center 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR DHS-Cherokee Mental Health Institute 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truck-Cherokee 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Tokyo Central West Covina 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Juilliard School/Sab Starbucks (Remote Ny)** 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Victory Packaging Phoenix 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Morgan Truck Body LLC MPA 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 45 Rockefeller Plaza/50 Rockefeller Plaza/1270 Avenue of the Americas 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0000000041 Quick Chek Food Stores 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0000000106 Quick Chek Food Stores 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryder Fruitland ID. 20 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.