Artificial turf installation · Iowa

Patriot Custom Metals

Carter Lake, IA · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Patriot Custom Metals runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Artificial turf installation workplace, earning a grade C.

Patriot Custom Metals: 2.5 TCR = 88% of Artificial turf installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Patriot Custom Metals safety composite

Patriot Custom Metals scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−0.9

2023→2024

Patriot Custom Metals injury rate improved

Patriot Custom Metals's TCR fell 0.9 from 2.9 in 2023 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.9 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · Carter Lake, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 88% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #13/25
  • PHOTO Dielco Crane Service…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dielco Crane Service, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Patriot Custom Metals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Patriot Custom Metals averages 2.5 TCR (88% of the Artificial turf installation BLS benchmark).

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

Patriot Custom Metals TCR series: 2023=2.9 · 2024=2 · BLS 2.8

Where Patriot Custom Metals falls in its industry

1,634 Artificial turf installation establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 25 Artificial turf installation employers in Iowa.

Patriot Custom Metals (47 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Patriot Custom Metals
Patriot Custom Metals (47 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Patriot Custom Metals has fewer employees than the Artificial turf installation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2023 2.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · IA · Carter Lake

1,634 Artificial turf installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 8 employers in Carter Lake, 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 Dielco Crane Service, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Emerald Collection 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PERFECT POOLS LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2646_5050 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DeJong Greenhouse LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Des Moines Office 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldfield 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms South 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lone Mountain Truck Leasing, LLC 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR PVS (Paxton Vierling Steel) Metals 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR PVS (Paxton Vierling Steel) Structures 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR SouthernCarlson - Carter Lake 45 FTE
NAT-TCR IMC Electrical LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR John Riley Construction 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Syracuse Label Co., Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Capitol Ready Mix, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Joe Riley Construction Inc 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Illini Elec. Coop. Paxton Headquarters 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE College Hills 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE TW Ridley LLC 47 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. 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.