Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction · Iowa

Public Works Street

Ames, IA · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works Street runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Public Works Street: 5.1 TCR = 184% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works Street safety composite

Public Works Street scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Public Works Street: 0.0 → 15.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2019

Public Works Street's TCR rose 15.4 from 0.0 in 2016 to 15.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 184% of ind

  • DART 15.4 DART
  • RANK #55/111
  • PHOTO Statewide Stripes, I…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Statewide Stripes, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works Street in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works Street averages 5.1 TCR (184% of the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works Street TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2019=15.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Public Works Street falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 111 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Iowa.

Public Works Street (21 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works Street
Public Works Street (21 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Public Works Street has fewer employees than the Pavement, 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 Fatalities
2019 15.4 15.4 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · IA · Ames

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 Statewide Stripes, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frederick & May Construction 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Action Traffic Maintenance Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR AC IRON 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Audubon Vet Clinic 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos South 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE K & B Ag Supply 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR Pearland Facility 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR QCI East 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Essential Wholesale & Labs 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR George's Virginia Grow Out 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hawthorn Northbrook-Wheeling 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hawthorn Raleigh 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Expedition Acres, LLC. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elenbaas Company Inc 21 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, 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.