Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) · Iowa

Midwest Underground Contractors Inc.

Walford, IA · ~15 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) workplace, earning a grade C.

Midwest Underground Contractors Inc.: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. safety composite

Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. held a steady TCR band

Midwest Underground Contractors Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.0 TCR.

2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Walford, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/7
  • PHOTO The Goettle Company
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Goettle Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. falls in its industry

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 7 Horizontal drilling (e.g., und employers in Iowa.

Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. (15 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Midwest Underground Contractors Inc.
Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. (15 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. has fewer employees than the Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground c median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · IA · Walford

932 Horizontal drilling (e.g., underground cable, pipeline, sewer installation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 6 employers in Walford, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR The Goettle Company 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turner at Sasol North America Westlake LA 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olin Corporation Freeport TX 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Standard Constructors, Inc. 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gee Asphalt Systems inc 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blending Facility 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quill Avenue 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schrader Excavating & Grading Co. 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR GSTC Logistics Muscatine Warehouse 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR GSTC Logistics | Muscatine 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR GSTC Logistics | Walford 25 FTE
NAT-TCR EPIC Tampa 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pitman Glass Company 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TXC101551 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Westell Inc Aurora 0.0 TCR

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. 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.