Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction · Iowa

Halbrook Excavating Inc

Ankeny, IA · ~41 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Halbrook Excavating Inc runs at 533% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Halbrook Excavating Inc: 14.9 TCR = 533% of Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Halbrook Excavating Inc safety composite

Halbrook Excavating Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−24.7

2016→2022

Halbrook Excavating Inc injury rate improved

Halbrook Excavating Inc's TCR fell 24.7 from 24.8 in 2016 to 0.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 29.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=24.8 · 2017=29.0 · 2020=11.8 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 14.9 · 533% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #30/32
  • PHOTO Water & Sewer - Char…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Water & Sewer - Charter Oak (0.5 TCR gap)

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Halbrook Excavating Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Halbrook Excavating Inc averages 14.9 TCR (533% of the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS benchmark).

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

Halbrook Excavating Inc TCR series: 2016=24.8 · 2017=29 · 2020=11.8 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=0.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Halbrook Excavating Inc falls in its industry

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #30 safest of 32 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat employers in Iowa.

Halbrook Excavating Inc (41 employees, TCR 14.9) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Halbrook Excavating Inc
Halbrook Excavating Inc (41 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Halbrook Excavating Inc has fewer employees than the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), const 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
2022 0.1 0.1 2 3 0
2021 8.9 0.0 3 0 0
2020 11.8 8.8 4 0 0
2017 29.0 23.2 10 0 0
2016 24.8 24.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · IA · Ankeny

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, 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 Water & Sewer - Charter Oak 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Randolph Office 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR R.M. Wright Construction Co. 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sewer 15.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Warehouse 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva-Dallas Center R&D 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Purelight Power of Des Moines 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE North West REC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1121 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0823 - Hayward Ca Bus Ctr 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZCOC 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill of Colorado - Loveland 14.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wible Lumber, Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE VITECH Manufacturing, LP 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dcm Transport, Inc. 41 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.