Anchored earth retention contractors · Iowa

Sunflower Enterprises

Dubuque, IA · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sunflower Enterprises runs at 548% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Anchored earth retention contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Sunflower Enterprises: 15.3 TCR = 548% of Anchored earth retention contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sunflower Enterprises safety composite

Sunflower Enterprises scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 29.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sunflower Enterprises: 11.3 → 29.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 29.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.91× in 2023

Sunflower Enterprises's TCR rose 17.9 from 11.3 in 2021 to 29.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.3 · 548% of ind

  • DART 29.3 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Maricorp US
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Maricorp US (0.2 TCR gap)

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Sunflower Enterprises in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sunflower Enterprises averages 15.3 TCR (548% of the Anchored earth retention contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Sunflower Enterprises TCR series: 2021=11.3 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=29.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Sunflower Enterprises falls in its industry

932 Anchored earth retention contr establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Anchored earth retention contr employers in Iowa.

Sunflower Enterprises (19 employees, TCR 15.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sunflower Enterprises
Sunflower Enterprises (19 employees, TCR 15.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Sunflower Enterprises has fewer employees than the Anchored earth retention contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2023 29.3 29.3 5 0 0
2022 5.5 0.0 1 0 0
2021 11.3 11.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · IA · Dubuque

932 Anchored earth retention contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Maricorp US 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greg Orick II Marine Construction Inc. 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summerset Marine Construction 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Bay Regional Park Districtd 16.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH15 Soybean Growth Chamber Building 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power Cooperative 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE main 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR Four County Health & Rehabilitation 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 167065-Schaumburg Po 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HG367 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lagrange Products Inc 15.3 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.