Concrete products forming machinery manufacturing · Iowa

Besser Sioux City

Sioux City, IA · ~41 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Besser Sioux City runs at 394% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Concrete products forming machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Besser Sioux City: 13.0 TCR = 394% of Concrete products forming machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Besser Sioux City safety composite

Besser Sioux City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Besser Sioux City: 11.8 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2018

Besser Sioux City's TCR rose 2.3 from 11.8 in 2017 to 14.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333249 · Sioux City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 394% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Kleiss Gears dba Vic…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kleiss Gears dba Victrex (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Iowa employers → · Look up another →

Besser Sioux City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Besser Sioux City averages 13.0 TCR (394% of the Concrete products forming machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Besser Sioux City TCR series: 2017=11.8 · 2018=14.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Besser Sioux City falls in its industry

448 Concrete products forming mach establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Concrete products forming mach employers in Iowa.

Besser Sioux City (41 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Besser Sioux City
Besser Sioux City (41 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Besser Sioux City has fewer employees than the Concrete products forming machinery manu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 14.2 4.0 6 1 0
2017 11.8 4.7 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333249 · IA · Sioux City

448 Concrete products forming machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, 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 Kleiss Gears dba Victrex 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpena 23 North 13.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Plastics 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenwood Plastics 13.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Warehouse 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva-Dallas Center R&D 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Purelight Power of Des Moines 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE North West REC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR OCY - Easton 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mountain View Landscapes and Lawncare, Inc. 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ocean County Auto Wreckers 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland - GY 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gordon's Electric Inc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Acoustics, Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ksi Trading Corp -41ma 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ksi Trading Corp -31ny 41 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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