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

Sternquist Construction, Inc

Indianola, IA · ~46 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sternquist Construction, Inc runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Sternquist Construction, Inc: 2.6 TCR = 93% of Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway, construction BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sternquist Construction, Inc safety composite

Sternquist Construction, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Sternquist Construction, Inc: 0.0 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 3.67× in 2024

Sternquist Construction, Inc's TCR rose 9.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Indianola, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 93% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #25/111
  • PHOTO Beck Excavating, Inc.
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beck Excavating, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sternquist Construction, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sternquist Construction, Inc averages 2.6 TCR (93% 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

Sternquist Construction, Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=9.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Sternquist Construction, Inc falls in its industry

4,078 Pavement, highway, road, stree establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #25 safest of 111 Pavement, highway, road, stree employers in Iowa.

Sternquist Construction, Inc (46 employees, TCR 2.6) 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 Sternquist Construction, Inc
Sternquist Construction, Inc (46 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Sternquist Construction, Inc has fewer employees than the Pavement, highway, road, street, bridge median and a lower 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
2024 9.5 9.5 3 0 0
2023 8.3 8.3 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.5 5.5 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 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 · Indianola

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 · 31 employers in Indianola, 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 Beck Excavating, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Suit-Kote Meadville (Road) 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Texas Bridge, Inc 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR S B&K Enterprises 2.6 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 WM 1491 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1491 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indianola - Main Store 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cemen Tech, Inc 147 FTE
NAT-TCR Birmingham Fastener & Supply, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AmTec 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Craig Generating Station 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cheney Flour Mill 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ritter Communications - Little Rock 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE FedEx Supply Chain PetSmart NV 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valero Enterprises, Inc 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson Lumber - N. Highlands 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.