Fertilizing machinery, farm-type, manufacturing · Iowa

Highway Equipment Company

Name: Highway Equipment Company Workplace Safety Data
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Cedar Rapids, IA · ~152 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Highway Equipment Company runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fertilizing machinery, farm-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Highway Equipment Company: 2.1 TCR = 62% of Fertilizing machinery, farm-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highway Equipment Company safety composite

Highway Equipment Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−0.6

2016→2022

Highway Equipment Company injury rate improved

Highway Equipment Company's TCR fell 0.6 from 0.6 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.6 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=5.0 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Cedar Rapids, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 62% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #8/65
PHOTO Burr Ridge
BOOK 7y book
INJ 20 inj
SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Burr Ridge (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Highway Equipment Company averages 2.1 TCR (62% of the Fertilizing machinery, farm-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Highway Equipment Company TCR series: 2016=0.6 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=2.4 · 2019=5 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Highway Equipment Company falls in its industry

433 Fertilizing machinery, farm-ty establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 65 Fertilizing machinery, farm-ty employers in Iowa.

Highway Equipment Company (152 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Highway Equipment Company has more employees than the Fertilizing machinery, farm-type, manufa median and a lower 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
2022	0.0	0.0	0	0
2021	2.6	1.9	3	1
2020	1.5	0.0	2	0
2019	5.0	1.2	7	1
2018	2.4	0.0	4	0
2017	2.5	1.2	3	1
2016	0.6	0.0	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IA · Cedar Rapids

433 Fertilizing machinery, farm-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 466 employers in Cedar Rapids, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Burr Ridge	BURR RIDGE, IL	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	AGCO : Edgewood	EDGEWOOD, MD	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	AGCO Beloit Operations	BELOIT, KS	2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Great Plains Manufacturing Inc. - Enterprise	ENTERPRISE, KS	2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Bill Whitters Construction Company	SOLON	152 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sigler Companies	AMES	152 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Helena Industries Incorported - Des Moines	DES MOINES	152 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BERRYQDC	BETTENDORF	152 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE)	Cedar Rapids	6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave	Cedar Rapids	6,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CRST EXPEDITED INC	Cedar Rapids	3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Luke's Methodist Hospital	Cedar Rapids	2,949 FTE
NAT-TCR	Master Print	Newington, VA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wire Design	Elkhart, IN	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Vanguard Truck Center	Forest Park, GA	2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Aurora Plant	Aurora, IL	2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	4795-Pd-Dtw- Detroit-Dtw-Pdmt	Detroit, MI	152 FTE
NAT-SIZE	4795-PD-RIC-RICHMOND-RIC-PDMT	Richmond, VA	152 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Greco and Sons of Arizona	Phoenix, AR	152 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Teledyne Instruments Inc., dba Teledyne Tekmar	Mason, OH	152 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.