Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge · Iowa

Highway Signing - Council Bluffs

Council Bluffs, IA · ~44 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highway Signing - Council Bluffs runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge workplace, earning a grade F.

Highway Signing - Council Bluffs: 7.6 TCR = 270% of Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highway Signing - Council Bluffs safety composite

Highway Signing - Council Bluffs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.4

2022→2024

Highway Signing - Council Bluffs injury rate improved

Highway Signing - Council Bluffs's TCR fell 3.4 from 7.8 in 2022 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.8 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Council Bluffs, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 270% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #81/111
  • PHOTO Sanilac County Road …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanilac County Road Commission (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highway Signing - Council Bluffs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highway Signing - Council Bluffs averages 7.6 TCR (270% of the Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge BLS benchmark).

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

Highway Signing - Council Bluffs TCR series: 2022=7.8 · 2023=10.6 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Highway Signing - Council Bluffs falls in its industry

4,078 Sign erection, highway, roads establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #81 safest of 111 Sign erection, highway, roads employers in Iowa.

Highway Signing - Council Bluffs (44 employees, TCR 7.6) 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 Highway Signing - Council Bluffs
Highway Signing - Council Bluffs (44 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Highway Signing - Council Bluffs has fewer employees than the Sign erection, highway, roads street or 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 4.3 2.2 2 0 0
2023 10.6 2.6 4 0 0
2022 7.8 1.9 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IA · Council Bluffs

4,078 Sign erection, highway, roads street or bridge employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 165 employers in Council Bluffs, 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 Sanilac County Road Commission 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roy Houck Construction LLC 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR D7 Vandalia Yard 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Site Safe Kentucky 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms East 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE GAC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2511-Beaman, IA (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2050-Clarion, IA (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant 1,486 FTE
CITY-NEAR 61830022 JENNIE EDMUNDSON MEMORIAL HOSP 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6183-61830022 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs IA 742 FTE
NAT-TCR The Chef's Warehouse Mid-Atlantic, LLC- Jessup, MD 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanilac County Road Commission 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6640 Simi Valley 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - WNY1 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3305-Tucson Hauling 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Twenty/20 Taphouse 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Maryland Oil - Prince Frederick 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davlan 44 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.