Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway · Iowa
Knife River Midwest
Sioux City, IA · ~116 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 2.5
- Avg TCR
- 2.8
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Knife River Midwest runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway workplace, earning a grade C.
Knife River Midwest: 2.5 TCR = 89% of Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Knife River Midwest safety composite
Knife River Midwest scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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).
47/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- C 2.5 per 100 workers
Safer than 57% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 2.56 per 100 workers
Safer than 32% 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%).
Rising injury rate
Knife River Midwest: 2.8 → 4.3 TCR
Peak year 2024 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2024
Knife River Midwest's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.8 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 237310 · Sioux City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID
Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 89% of ind
- DART 2.6 DART
- RANK #23/111
- PHOTO Argenio Brothers off…
- BOOK 8y book
- INJ 23 inj
- SIZE ~116 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Argenio Brothers office (0.0 TCR gap)
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Knife River Midwest in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Knife River Midwest
2.5 TCR
- Argenio Brothe
Argenio Brothers office
2.5 TCR
- Superior Pavin
Superior Paving Corp.
2.5 TCR
- Kirby Developm
Kirby Development, Inc
2.5 TCR
- Peek Pavement
Peek Pavement Marking Byron, GA
2.5 TCR
What this shows Knife River Midwest averages 2.5 TCR (89% of the Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS benchmark).
Knife River Midwest TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 2.8
Where Knife River Midwest falls in its industry
4,078 Surfacing, highway, road, stre establishmentsSafer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.
Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 111 Surfacing, highway, road, stre employers in Iowa.
Knife River Midwest has more employees than the Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge median and a lower 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 | 4.3 | 2.6 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 3.4 | 2.5 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
237310 · IA · Sioux City
4,078 Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, 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 | Argenio Brothers office | 2.5 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Superior Paving Corp. | 2.5 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Kirby Development, Inc | 2.5 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Peek Pavement Marking Byron, GA | 2.5 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Camso Manufacturing USA, Ltd. | 116 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Loffredo Fresh Foods | 116 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Hydrite - Waterloo IA | 116 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | 2807-1712 | 116 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Seaboard Triumph Foods | 2,375 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | SeaboardTriumph Foods | 1,896 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | St. Luke's Regional Medical Center | 1,201 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp | 691 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Greenway Equipment Poplar Bluff | 2.5 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Phenix Flooring, LLC | 2.5 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Mactac Spartanburg | 2.5 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Union Power Cooperative - Monroe | 2.5 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Elegant Packaging | 116 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Walnut Hills Retirement Community | 116 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | OCuSOFT | 116 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | North Country Ford | 116 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.