Cast iron railroad car wheels manufacturing · Iowa

Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk

Keokuk, IA · ~200 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk runs at 259% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cast iron railroad car wheels manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk: 8.6 TCR = 259% of Cast iron railroad car wheels manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk safety composite

Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.6

2016→2022

Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk injury rate improved

Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk's TCR fell 9.6 from 14.7 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.7 · 2018=14.8 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Keokuk, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 259% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO Cullman Casting Corp…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 114 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cullman Casting Corporation (0.1 TCR gap)

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Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk averages 8.6 TCR (259% of the Cast iron railroad car wheels manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk TCR series: 2016=14.7 · 2018=14.8 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk falls in its industry

272 Cast iron railroad car wheels establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 14 Cast iron railroad car wheels employers in Iowa.

Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk (200 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk
Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk (200 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk has more employees than the Cast iron railroad car wheels manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 5.1 4.7 12 0 0
2021 3.4 2.2 6 0 0
2020 4.2 4.2 6 2 0
2019 9.1 5.2 23 0 0
2018 14.8 5.5 34 1 0
2016 14.7 10.8 33 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · IA · Keokuk

272 Cast iron railroad car wheels manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 35 employers in Keokuk, 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 Cullman Casting Corporation 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Viking Pump Inc - Foundry (A Unit of IDEX Corporation) 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trumbull Foundry and Alloy Federal Street 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acme Foundry Inc 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kreg Tool 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geneva 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE DC4 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harmony House Care Center 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roquette America - Keokuk 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1431 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1431 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seither & Cherry Company 142 FTE
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers #110 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Auberge at Cedar Park 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR National Management Resources (Faulkner University) 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 9277-199 Vab Base Area 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bright Future Electric - Orlando 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2050-20500999-TRANS1 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elderwood of Lakeside at Brockport 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wabash Christian Village 200 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, 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.