Construction management, water and sewer line · Iowa

Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd.

Anamosa, IA · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd. runs at 420% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction management, water and sewer line workplace, earning a grade F.

Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd.: 11.8 TCR = 420% of Construction management, water and sewer line BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd. safety composite

Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.4

2016→2017

Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd. injury rate improved

Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd.'s TCR fell 6.4 from 14.9 in 2016 to 8.6 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.9 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.9 · 2017=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Anamosa, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.8 · 420% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #26/32
  • PHOTO WPCA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WPCA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd. averages 11.8 TCR (420% of the Construction management, water and sewer line BLS benchmark).

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

Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd. TCR series: 2016=14.9 · 2017=8.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd. falls in its industry

1,614 Construction management, water establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #26 safest of 32 Construction management, water employers in Iowa.

Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd. (46 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd.
Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd. (46 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ricklefs Excavating,Ltd. has fewer employees than the Construction management, water and sewer 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
2017 8.6 6.4 4 0 0
2016 14.9 8.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · IA · Anamosa

1,614 Construction management, water and sewer line employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 20 employers in Anamosa, 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 WPCA 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR T-G EXCAVATING INC 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sioux City Engineering Company 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR QRC, INC. 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hickory Hill Farms 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Van Hessen USA Ottumwa 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Absolute Infrastructure 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASP Offenders 692 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASP Staff 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR IPI Offenders 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 646 167 FTE
NAT-TCR Bay Center (Cabay) 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Courier Express Charlotte, NC 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Plastics-R-Unique, Inc. 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR American Elite Molding LLC 11.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Paul Jackson and Son, Inc. 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE TR Construction 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Waters of Minocqua 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Express and Suites Madison - Verona 46 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: 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.