Oil field road construction · Michigan

Iron County Road Commission

Iron River, MI · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Iron County Road Commission runs at 366% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Oil field road construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Iron County Road Commission: 10.3 TCR = 366% of Oil field road construction BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iron County Road Commission safety composite

Iron County Road Commission scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9% 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

8/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Iron County Road Commission: 7.2 → 21.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 21.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

Iron County Road Commission's TCR rose 14.2 from 7.2 in 2017 to 21.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Iron River, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 366% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #114/139
  • PHOTO Arkansas Sign and Ba…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arkansas Sign and Barricade (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iron County Road Commission in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iron County Road Commission averages 10.3 TCR (366% of the Oil field road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Iron County Road Commission TCR series: 2017=7.2 · 2021=7.9 · 2022=14.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=21.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Iron County Road Commission falls in its industry

4,078 Oil field road construction establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #114 safest of 139 Oil field road construction employers in Michigan.

Iron County Road Commission (31 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 Iron County Road Commission
Iron County Road Commission (31 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Iron County Road Commission has fewer employees than the Oil field road 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 21.4 7.2 6 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 14.7 3.7 4 0 0
2021 7.9 3.9 2 0 1
2017 7.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MI · Iron River

4,078 Oil field road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 10 employers in Iron River, MI · 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 Arkansas Sign and Barricade 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Road Safety Systems, LLC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAR-ALLEN CONCRETE PRODUCTS INC 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gruber Mcneill Contracting, Inc. 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Greenhouse, Inc. 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Production 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.B. Satkowiak's City Sewer Cleaners 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Melching Inc. 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspirus Iron River Hospital 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iron River Plant 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeshore Systems, Inc. Iron River 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hebert Construction Company 36 FTE
NAT-TCR Champion 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR RET-SSW Store 27 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Glenwell 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cyr Lumber Co., Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cryogenic Construction Inc 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA TN Memphis Plant 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valu Home Center #38 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Don Park USA (LP) 31 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, 2017. 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.