Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire · Iowa

Barker Wire Products, Inc

Keosauqua,, IA · ~43 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barker Wire Products, Inc runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade C.

Barker Wire Products, Inc: 3.7 TCR = 113% of Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barker Wire Products, Inc safety composite

Barker Wire Products, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−4.5

2018→2023

Barker Wire Products, Inc injury rate improved

Barker Wire Products, Inc's TCR fell 4.5 from 4.5 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.5 · 2021=6.7 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Keosauqua,, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 113% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Apex Tool Group
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Apex Tool Group (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barker Wire Products, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barker Wire Products, Inc averages 3.7 TCR (113% of the Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Barker Wire Products, Inc TCR series: 2018=4.5 · 2021=6.7 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Barker Wire Products, Inc falls in its industry

270 Shelving, wire, made from purc establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Shelving, wire, made from purc employers in Iowa.

Barker Wire Products, Inc (43 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Barker Wire Products, Inc
Barker Wire Products, Inc (43 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Barker Wire Products, Inc has fewer employees than the Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.7 4.4 3 0 0
2018 4.5 2.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · IA · Keosauqua,

270 Shelving, wire, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Apex Tool Group 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashley Sling, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allentown Inc 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WireCrafters Louisville 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms North 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koester Construction Company Incorporated 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Contracting Services 43 FTE
NAT-TCR Lisa's Food Enterprises Inc 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Metalworking Group - Pippin Road 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Marine Equipment & Supply Company 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern California Plastics 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Precision Fabrics Group - Distribution Center 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied Bindery LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sys-Kool LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Clinton 43 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: 2023, 2021, 2018. 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.