Housing, single-family, construction general contractors · Iowa

Kading Construction Company Inc

Urbandale, IA · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kading Construction Company Inc runs at 390% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Housing, single-family, construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Kading Construction Company Inc: 14.8 TCR = 390% of Housing, single-family, construction general contractors BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kading Construction Company Inc safety composite

Kading Construction Company Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 20.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Kading Construction Company Inc: 17.8 → 20.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 20.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2023

Kading Construction Company Inc's TCR rose 2.5 from 17.8 in 2020 to 20.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236115 · Urbandale, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.8 · 390% of ind

  • DART 20.4 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Strandberg Construct…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Strandberg Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kading Construction Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kading Construction Company Inc averages 14.8 TCR (390% of the Housing, single-family, construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Kading Construction Company Inc TCR series: 2020=17.8 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=20.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Kading Construction Company Inc falls in its industry

976 Housing, single-family, constr establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Housing, single-family, constr employers in Iowa.

Kading Construction Company Inc (30 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kading Construction Company Inc
Kading Construction Company Inc (30 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kading Construction Company Inc has fewer employees than the Housing, single-family, construction gen median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 20.4 20.4 7 0 0
2022 6.3 6.3 2 0 0
2020 17.8 17.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236115 · IA · Urbandale

976 Housing, single-family, construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 104 employers in Urbandale, 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 Strandberg Construction 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR High Point DBA Rafael Framers 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TIS - MA 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hastings Construction Inc. 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Office 93 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISG Urbandale 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Manufacturing Corporation 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Urbandale/Nevada 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR URBANDALE IA 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Jack in the Box #4408 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-East Wenatchee 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wolftever Healthcare, LLC 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Toledo Engineering LLC - Company All 14.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quest Division of TSI 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chernay Printing, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foam Fabricators 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walters & Wolf Las Vegas 30 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: 2023, 2022, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.