Commercial building construction · Iowa

Woodruff Construction, Inc

Fort Dodge, IA · ~170 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Woodruff Construction, Inc runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial building construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Woodruff Construction, Inc: 3.0 TCR = 102% of Commercial building construction BLS 2.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Woodruff Construction, Inc safety composite

Woodruff Construction, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.62 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2016→2024

Woodruff Construction, Inc injury rate improved

Woodruff Construction, Inc's TCR fell 1.9 from 4.6 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.6 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=2.0 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Fort Dodge, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 102% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #35/75
  • PHOTO Construction
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Construction (0.0 TCR gap)

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Woodruff Construction, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Woodruff Construction, Inc averages 3.0 TCR (102% of the Commercial building construction BLS benchmark).

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

Woodruff Construction, Inc TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=1.9 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=2 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 2.9

Where Woodruff Construction, Inc falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 75 Commercial building constructi employers in Iowa.

Woodruff Construction, Inc (170 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Woodruff Construction, Inc
Woodruff Construction, Inc (170 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Woodruff Construction, Inc has more employees than the Commercial building construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 2.7 1.6 5 0 0
2023 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2022 2.0 1.4 3 0 0
2021 2.7 1.4 4 0 0
2020 2.7 2.0 4 0 0
2019 2.4 1.8 4 0 0
2018 5.8 4.1 10 0 0
2017 1.9 1.9 3 0 0
2016 4.6 4.6 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · IA · Fort Dodge

4,692 Commercial building construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 75 employers in Fort Dodge, 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 Construction 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bluestone Partners LLC, Sherman 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mark Young Construction 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin General Contracting 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Hedrick HED1 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFA FLUID - LEMARS IA - LINCOLN ST 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterloo Plant 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center 790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Point Trinity Regional Medical Center 648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Terminal 539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Correctional Facility 452 FTE
NAT-TCR Global Finishing Solutions 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bradenton 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 042-LKN 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenix Transportation Services, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Biotics Research Corp. 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gilbane Building Company Chicago 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coldspring Transitional Care Center 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint-Gobain 170 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.