Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway · Iowa

Public Works

Name: Public Works Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ankeny, IA · ~27 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 12.7
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Public Works runs at 453% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works: 12.7 TCR = 453% of Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works safety composite

Public Works scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 12.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

TCR Δ

−17.2

2020→2024

Public Works injury rate improved

Public Works's TCR fell 17.2 from 17.2 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 17.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=17.2 · 2021=12.5 · 2022=17.1 · 2023=16.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 453% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #101/111
PHOTO D6 Carlinville Yard
BOOK 5y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: D6 Carlinville Yard (0.0 TCR gap)

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12.6

What this shows Public Works averages 12.7 TCR (453% of the Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS benchmark).

Public Works TCR series: 2020=17.2 · 2021=12.5 · 2022=17.1 · 2023=16.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Public Works falls in its industry

4,078 Surfacing, highway, road, stre establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #101 safest of 111 Surfacing, highway, road, stre employers in Iowa.

Public Works (27 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Public Works has fewer employees than the Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge median and a higher 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
2024	0.0	0.0	0	0
2023	16.6	8.3	3	1
2022	17.1	8.6	4	0
2021	12.5	4.2	3	0
2020	17.2	12.9	4	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IA · Ankeny

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 · 141 employers in Ankeny, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	D6 Carlinville Yard	CARLINVILLE, IL	12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	D3 Kankakee Yard	KANKAKEE, IL	12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Overton County Highway Department	LIVINGSTON, TN	12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	GUARDRAILS, etc., Inc.	BALTIMORE, MD	12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	2520-Storm Lake, IA (Monsanto Co.)	STORM LAKE	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wastewater Treatment Plant	SIOUX CITY	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Quality Construction Services, Inc.	ELDRIDGE	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The Weitz Company - Mission Critical - Microsoft DSM 14	WEST DES MOINES	27 FTE
CITY-NEAR	John Deere Des Moines Works	Ankeny	1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Des Moines Works	Ankeny	1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR	PDI	Ankeny	859 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Baker Group	Ankeny	617 FTE
NAT-TCR	MaeFlower Logistics LLC	Mission Viejo, CA	12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Northland Machine Inc	Grand Rapids, MN	12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Morris O Nelson & Sons, Inc	Springfield, OR	12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mackenzie Place	Fort Collins, CO	12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bonded Fibers Midwest, Inc.	Delavan, WI	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	00202 Shelley Office	Shelley, ID	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	North Olmsted	North Olmsted, OH	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	00520 Price Service Center	Price, UT	27 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.