Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services · Iowa

Highway Signing Inc.

Council Bluffs, IA · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highway Signing Inc. runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services workplace, earning a grade D.

Highway Signing Inc.: 4.1 TCR = 157% of Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highway Signing Inc. safety composite

Highway Signing Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Highway Signing Inc.: 0.0 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.25× in 2021

Highway Signing Inc.'s TCR rose 12.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 12.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561990 · Council Bluffs, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 157% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK P35
  • PHOTO North Star Enterpris…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Star Enterprises, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highway Signing Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highway Signing Inc. averages 4.1 TCR (157% of the Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services BLS benchmark).

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

Highway Signing Inc. TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=12.3 · BLS 2.6

Where Highway Signing Inc. falls in its industry

208 Flagging (i.e., traffic contro establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Highway Signing Inc. (29 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Highway Signing Inc.
Highway Signing Inc. (29 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Highway Signing Inc. has fewer employees than the Flagging (i.e., traffic control) service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2021 12.3 9.2 0 4 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561990 · IA · Council Bluffs

208 Flagging (i.e., traffic control) services 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 North Star Enterprises, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rochester, NY-1 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capitol Barricade Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Texas (WTX) 5305 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE FDML Forest City 0016 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dogwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery Valley Farms 29 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 030259-Apache Junction Po 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Premium Waters - Pittsfield 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vista Medical Center 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wyckoff farms inc 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prime Controls Sugar Land 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE AWPI-Marble 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE SWR553 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE HSM 29 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.