Commercial building construction general contractors · Iowa

Kirk Gross Company

Waterloo, IA · ~37 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kirk Gross Company runs at 293% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Kirk Gross Company: 8.5 TCR = 293% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kirk Gross Company safety composite

Kirk Gross Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−1.7

2016→2019

Kirk Gross Company injury rate improved

Kirk Gross Company's TCR fell 1.7 from 7.3 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 18.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.3 · 2017=18.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 293% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #64/75
  • PHOTO Valor Contracting
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valor Contracting (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kirk Gross Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kirk Gross Company averages 8.5 TCR (293% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Kirk Gross Company TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=18.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=5.6 · BLS 2.9

Where Kirk Gross Company falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 75 Commercial building constructi employers in Iowa.

Kirk Gross Company (37 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kirk Gross Company
Kirk Gross Company (37 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Kirk Gross Company has fewer employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2019 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2017 18.6 8.0 7 0 0
2016 7.3 4.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · IA · Waterloo

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 172 employers in Waterloo, 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 Valor Contracting 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RMD Manufacturing, LTD 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reynolds Restoration Services, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ameritech Dallas TX 108, 109 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rockwell City Warehouse 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux County Egg 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE OSI Gen Repair & Svc Wind Plt 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Lawrence (KS009) 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hawk County Extension 4,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterloo Pork Plant 2,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint 2,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR JD Waterloo Tractor and Cab Assembly Operations 1,605 FTE
NAT-TCR Meadows Mechanical 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR J. Bowers Construction 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Danzer Vener America Darlington 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon Transportation Services : MSP5 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE T&R Wholesale Foods, Inc 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACI 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monterey Jay Plant 37 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: 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.