Excavation contractors · Iowa

Kelly Cortum Inc

Norwalk, IA · ~30 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kelly Cortum Inc runs at 16% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Excavation contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Kelly Cortum Inc: 0.5 TCR = 16% of Excavation contractors BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kelly Cortum Inc safety composite

Kelly Cortum Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Kelly Cortum Inc: 0.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Kelly Cortum Inc's TCR rose 4.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238910 · Norwalk, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 16% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/28
  • PHOTO Jackson Demolition S…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jackson Demolition Service, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kelly Cortum Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kelly Cortum Inc averages 0.5 TCR (16% of the Excavation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Kelly Cortum Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Kelly Cortum Inc falls in its industry

1,750 Excavation contractors establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 28 Excavation contractors employers in Iowa.

Kelly Cortum Inc (30 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kelly Cortum Inc
Kelly Cortum Inc (30 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Kelly Cortum Inc has fewer employees than the Excavation contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238910 · IA · Norwalk

1,750 Excavation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 19 employers in Norwalk, 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 Jackson Demolition Service, Inc 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pickett Industries, LLC. 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR North American Dismantling Corp 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bear Contracting, LLC. 0.4 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 Kading Construction Company Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Produce Innovations 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michael Foods - Norwalk 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Capital City Fruit, Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Windsor Windows and Doors 161 FTE
NAT-TCR Anthem 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR WAL Walbert Learning Center 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PaperWorks Packaging Group 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Oregon Clean Energy Center 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Cable and Electronics, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Favreau Electric, Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 100-San Antonio 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continuum Care Hospice 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.