Radio and television tower sections, fabricated structural metal, manufacturing · Iowa

Sabre Towers and Poles

Sioux City, IA · ~253 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sabre Towers and Poles runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Radio and television tower sections, fabricated structural metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Sabre Towers and Poles: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Radio and television tower sections, fabricated structural metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sabre Towers and Poles safety composite

Sabre Towers and Poles scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.32 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sabre Towers and Poles: 0.9 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2019

Sabre Towers and Poles's TCR rose 4.3 from 0.9 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Sioux City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #6/24
  • PHOTO DIS-TRAN Steel - Ohio
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~253 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DIS-TRAN Steel - Ohio (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sabre Towers and Poles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sabre Towers and Poles averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Radio and television tower sections, fabricated structural metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sabre Towers and Poles TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=2.4 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Sabre Towers and Poles falls in its industry

1,491 Radio and television tower sec establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 24 Radio and television tower sec employers in Iowa.

Sabre Towers and Poles (253 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sabre Towers and Poles
Sabre Towers and Poles (253 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Sabre Towers and Poles has more employees than the Radio and television tower sections, fab median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 5.1 3.3 20 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 9 0 0
2017 2.4 1.6 6 0 0
2016 0.9 0.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · IA · Sioux City

1,491 Radio and television tower sections, fabricated structural metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, 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 DIS-TRAN Steel - Ohio 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALBAform Inc, 5405 Rafe Banks Drive, Flowery Branch, GA 30542 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dixie Southern Industrial / Curry Steel 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Providential Fabricators Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Palmer Candy Company - HWY 75 253 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1113 - Iowa City 253 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1526 253 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unifi Aviation Services : DSM - Des Moines 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Conn-Weld Industries Inc Princeton 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft. Lauderdale Service Center 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Transparency Division 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Richard Bagdasarian, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Univ of Wisconsin-Oshkosh 253 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Pacific Equipment Inc. 253 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brunswick Family Health Center 253 FTE
NAT-SIZE Member Support Center - MSC 253 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.