Highway construction · Iowa

Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA

Washington, IA · ~85 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA runs at 304% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Highway construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA: 8.5 TCR = 304% of Highway construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA safety composite

Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

11/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

−3.0

2018→2024

Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA injury rate improved

Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA's TCR fell 3.0 from 8.7 in 2018 to 5.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.7 · 2019=7.3 · 2021=11.1 · 2022=12.0 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Washington, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 304% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #87/111
  • PHOTO Public Works Departm…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Works Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA averages 8.5 TCR (304% of the Highway construction BLS benchmark).

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

Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA TCR series: 2018=8.7 · 2019=7.3 · 2021=11.1 · 2022=12 · 2023=6.2 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA falls in its industry

4,078 Highway construction establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #87 safest of 111 Highway construction employers in Iowa.

Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA (85 employees, TCR 8.5) 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 Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA
Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA (85 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA has more employees than the Highway construction 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 5.7 5.7 4 0 0
2023 6.2 6.2 5 0 0
2022 12.0 9.6 10 0 1
2021 11.1 9.7 8 0 0
2019 7.3 7.3 5 0 0
2018 8.7 8.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IA · Washington

4,078 Highway construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 27 employers in Washington, 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 Public Works Department 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Besch and Smith Civil Group, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR King County Local Services 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Bridge Company - 472310 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc. -- Toledo SPSC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4141_7899 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Products (Northern MAPL) 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Washington County Hospital and Clinics 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1475 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1475 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Halcyon House 141 FTE
NAT-TCR Labatt Corpus 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation - West Orange 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Eagan,MN 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fontana 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Embassy Suites by Hilton San Rafael, CA 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Isolatek-Stanhope 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Greek Theatre 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landscaping Services, Inc. 85 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, 2021, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.