Planting machines, farm-type, manufacturing · Iowa

Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp

Name: Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Paton, IA · ~73 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Planting machines, farm-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Planting machines, farm-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp safety composite

Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% 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).

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.01 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%).

Rising injury rate

Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp: 1.4 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2021

Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp's TCR rose 4.0 from 1.4 in 2020 to 5.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Paton, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

DART 4.0 DART
RANK #18/65
PHOTO DK Fab, Inc.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DK Fab, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Planting machines, farm-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp TCR series: 2020=1.4 · 2021=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp falls in its industry

433 Planting machines, farm-type, establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 65 Planting machines, farm-type, employers in Iowa.

Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp (73 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Bauer Built Manufacturing, Inc. S-Corp has fewer employees than the Planting machines, farm-type, manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2021	5.3	4.0	3	1	0
2020	1.4	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IA · Paton

433 Planting machines, farm-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 3 employers in Paton, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	DK Fab, Inc.	WOODBURN, OR	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Valley NE - Main Campus - Irrigation	VALLEY, NE	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	John Deere Seeding Group - Valley City	VALLEY CITY, ND	3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	John Deere Cylinder Div. - Moline	MOLINE, IL	3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Lone Tree	LONE TREE	73 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Corporate Headquarters	DECORAH	73 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Field Services (Public Services, Parks & Signs/Signals	SIOUX CITY	73 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Caruth Construction Inc.	AMES	73 FTE
CITY-NEAR	John Deere Paton	Paton	114 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bauer Built Manufacturing	Paton	73 FTE
NAT-TCR	Commercial Painting, Inc	Pawtucket, RI	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hills #1	Whiteville, NC	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Frozen Specialty Food Manufacturing - DSD	Milwaukee, WI	3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	General Tool	Irvine, CA	3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Regency Senior Communities Brookfield	Brookfield, WI	73 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Compu Dynamics LLC	Sterling, VA	73 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Denver Cold Storage, Inc.	Denver, PA	73 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Renaissance Roofing, Inc.	Belvidere, IL	73 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: 2021, 2020. 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.