Erecting structural steel · Iowa

Interstate Reinforcing Steel

Iowa City, IA · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Interstate Reinforcing Steel runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Erecting structural steel workplace, earning a grade C.

Interstate Reinforcing Steel: 3.4 TCR = 120% of Erecting structural steel BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Interstate Reinforcing Steel safety composite

Interstate Reinforcing Steel scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−2.9

2016→2020

Interstate Reinforcing Steel injury rate improved

Interstate Reinforcing Steel's TCR fell 2.9 from 2.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.9 · 2018=10.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Iowa City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 120% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/13
  • PHOTO Bake's Steel Erector…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bake's Steel Erectors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Interstate Reinforcing Steel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Interstate Reinforcing Steel averages 3.4 TCR (120% of the Erecting structural steel BLS benchmark).

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

Interstate Reinforcing Steel TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2018=10.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Interstate Reinforcing Steel falls in its industry

705 Erecting structural steel establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 13 Erecting structural steel employers in Iowa.

Interstate Reinforcing Steel (25 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Interstate Reinforcing Steel
Interstate Reinforcing Steel (25 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Interstate Reinforcing Steel has fewer employees than the Erecting structural steel median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 10.5 3.5 3 0 0
2016 2.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · IA · Iowa City

705 Erecting structural steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 131 employers in Iowa City, 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 Bake's Steel Erectors, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Georgia Field 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlanta Steel Erectors, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DIAMOND STEEL CONSTRUCTION 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE WCT-Crystal Lake 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oskaloosa Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consumers Energy 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1918-19187610 29,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa City North Dodge (ICND) 940 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8010516-P and G Iowa City 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Iowa City 721 FTE
NAT-TCR Michels Pipe Service- Brownsville 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SOW 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Langdon Place of Keene 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR PAN 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Napa Detroit Main Store 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mactac Kansas City Warehouse 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winona Service Center 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pampa Service Center 25 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.