Government - Transportation · Iowa

Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification

Name: Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Ames, IA · ~72 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.4
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification runs at 13% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Government - Transportation workplace, earning a grade A.

Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification: 0.4 TCR = 13% of Government - Transportation BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification safety composite

Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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).

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−1.6

2019→2022

Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification injury rate improved

Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification's TCR fell 1.6 from 1.6 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 926120 · Ames, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.4 · 13% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #1/15
PHOTO SECONDARY COMPLEX - …
BOOK 4y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SECONDARY COMPLEX - DOS (0.0 TCR gap)

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CO CBM Laborat

0.5
This site

0.4
SECONDARY COMP

0.4
NCDOT IT

0.4
D5 Headquarter

0.3

What this shows Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification averages 0.4 TCR (13% of the Government - Transportation BLS benchmark).

Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification TCR series: 2019=1.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification falls in its industry

208 Government - Transportation establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 15 Government - Transportation employers in Iowa.

Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification (72 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Iowa DOT - Highway Beautification has fewer employees than the Government - Transportation median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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	Injuries
2022	0.0	0
2021	0.0	0
2020	0.0	0
2019	1.6	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

926120 · IA · Ames

208 Government - Transportation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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	SECONDARY COMPLEX - DOS	LANSING, MI	0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	CO CBM Laboratory	SPRINGFIELD, IL	0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NCDOT IT	RALEIGH, NC	0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	D5 Headquarters	PARIS, IL	0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Des Moines Two Rivers Gas	DES MOINES	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Denco Highway Construction Corporation	MINGO	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Forrest & Associate, Inc.	DES MOINES	72 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CKF Des Moines	URBANDALE	72 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ISU - University Wide	Ames	13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ISU - On Campus	Ames	12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital	Ames	1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mary Greeley Medical Center	Ames	1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR	North American Drillers, LLC	Mt. Morris, PA	0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	LET	Charlotte, NC	0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gomez Harvesting	Rocky Point, NC	0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	4192-00051423-SDG	El Cajon, CA	0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Reichhold Morris	Morris, IL	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tops #360	Canastota, NY	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ecumen Worthington The Meadows	Worthington, MN	72 FTE
NAT-SIZE	US Ecology Michigan	Belleville, MI	72 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. 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.