Gray iron foundries · Iowa

Besser Boone

Boone, IA · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Besser Boone runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Gray iron foundries workplace, earning a grade F.

Besser Boone: 6.6 TCR = 201% of Gray iron foundries BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Besser Boone safety composite

Besser Boone scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−6.6

2017→2018

Besser Boone injury rate improved

Besser Boone's TCR fell 6.6 from 9.9 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.9 · 2018=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Boone, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 201% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #5/14
  • PHOTO John Deere Waterloo …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: John Deere Waterloo Foundry (0.0 TCR gap)

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Besser Boone in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Besser Boone averages 6.6 TCR (201% of the Gray iron foundries BLS benchmark).

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

Besser Boone TCR series: 2017=9.9 · 2018=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Besser Boone falls in its industry

272 Gray iron foundries establishments

Safer than 54% 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 #5 safest of 14 Gray iron foundries employers in Iowa.

Besser Boone (54 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 Besser Boone
Besser Boone (54 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Besser Boone has fewer employees than the Gray iron foundries median and a lower 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
2018 3.3 1.6 2 0 0
2017 9.9 8.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · IA · Boone

272 Gray iron foundries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 39 employers in Boone, 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 John Deere Waterloo Foundry 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Neenah Enterprises Inc. (Neenah Foundry) 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aarrowcast, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ferroloy Inc 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Graettinger 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Service Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Creek Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettendorf Service Center 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 3804 568 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boone County Hospital 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDS Global Boone 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1389 180 FTE
NAT-TCR Dialysis Clinic incorporated 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Advantage Terrafab, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pig 'N Pancake - Newport 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Penske : 5802-00 Toyota/Princeton, IN 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Texas Musical Drama 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Plains Bluffton LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Troyer A Country Market 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied Terrace 54 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.