Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · Iowa

Accu Steel 2245

Audubon, IA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Accu Steel 2245 runs at 245% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Accu Steel 2245: 8.1 TCR = 245% of Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Accu Steel 2245 safety composite

Accu Steel 2245 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Accu Steel 2245: 5.3 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2017

Accu Steel 2245's TCR rose 5.5 from 5.3 in 2016 to 10.8 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332311 · Audubon, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 245% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Central States Manuf…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central States Manufacturing - Graniteville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Accu Steel 2245 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Accu Steel 2245 averages 8.1 TCR (245% of the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Accu Steel 2245 TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=10.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Accu Steel 2245 falls in its industry

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Buildings, prefabricated metal employers in Iowa.

Accu Steel 2245 (20 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Accu Steel 2245
Accu Steel 2245 (20 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Accu Steel 2245 has fewer employees than the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2017 10.8 5.4 2 0 0
2016 5.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332311 · IA · Audubon

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 13 employers in Audubon, 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 Central States Manufacturing - Graniteville 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lucas Metal Works 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR R & M Steel Company 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rough Brothers Manufacturing Inc. 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Skyline Pork, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE J-Six Farms Iowa 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos Jacksonville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newell Pig II 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Audubon County Memorial Hospital 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Audubon County Memorial Hospital & Clinics 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMVC 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Friendship home 59 FTE
NAT-TCR Legends - Lancaster Barnstormers 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ZZ - Rochester CSC 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tmx2183 - Catseye 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton House 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 105 Stonecrest Drive 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks Shreveport 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0787 - Cullman, Al 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0751 - Ridgecrest, Ca 20 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: 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.