Distribution line, sewer and water, construction · Iowa

The Underground Company

Carlisle, IA · ~49 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Underground Company runs at 143% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Distribution line, sewer and water, construction workplace, earning a grade D.

The Underground Company: 4.0 TCR = 143% of Distribution line, sewer and water, construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Underground Company safety composite

The Underground Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

The Underground Company: 0.0 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2022

The Underground Company's TCR rose 8.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 8.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 143% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #11/32
  • PHOTO Harper Construction …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harper Construction Co., Inc. - Roland (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Underground Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Underground Company averages 4.0 TCR (143% of the Distribution line, sewer and water, construction BLS benchmark).

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

The Underground Company TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=11.8 · 2022=8.1 · BLS 2.8

Where The Underground Company falls in its industry

1,614 Distribution line, sewer and w establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #11 safest of 32 Distribution line, sewer and w employers in Iowa.

The Underground Company (49 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 The Underground Company
The Underground Company (49 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

The Underground Company has fewer employees than the Distribution line, sewer and water, cons 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
2022 8.1 2.0 4 0 0
2021 11.8 0.0 6 0 0
2020 4.1 4.1 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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · IA · Carlisle

1,614 Distribution line, sewer and water, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 9 employers in Carlisle, 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 Harper Construction Co., Inc. - Roland 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Preload LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland, TN 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prism Contractors and Engineers Inc 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Marshalltown, IA 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms West 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIPCO - Cedar Rapids 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Murphy Tower Service LLC 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills (Avon) 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wyckoff Heating & Cooling 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandstone Management, LTD 70 FTE
NAT-TCR Massey Services 21 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pallet Exchange Co., Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Foods 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Transport Corporation - Jacksonville 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Firststeps for Kids Ventura 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miller-Davis Company 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSI Holdings Corporation 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holt and Bugbee Hardwoods 49 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.