Warehousing and storage, general merchandise · Iowa

Black Cat Blades LLC

Dewitt, IA · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Cat Blades LLC runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Warehousing and storage, general merchandise workplace, earning a grade F.

Black Cat Blades LLC: 12.7 TCR = 219% of Warehousing and storage, general merchandise BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Cat Blades LLC safety composite

Black Cat Blades LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Black Cat Blades LLC: 10.0 → 15.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2018

Black Cat Blades LLC's TCR rose 5.4 from 10.0 in 2016 to 15.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Dewitt, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 219% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #98/102
  • PHOTO 993 Miami DC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 993 Miami DC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black Cat Blades LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Cat Blades LLC averages 12.7 TCR (219% of the Warehousing and storage, general merchandise BLS benchmark).

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

Black Cat Blades LLC TCR series: 2016=10 · 2018=15.4 · BLS 5.8

Where Black Cat Blades LLC falls in its industry

9,477 Warehousing and storage, gener establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #98 safest of 102 Warehousing and storage, gener employers in Iowa.

Black Cat Blades LLC (27 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Black Cat Blades LLC
Black Cat Blades LLC (27 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Black Cat Blades LLC has fewer employees than the Warehousing and storage, general merchan median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 15.4 12.3 5 0 0
2016 10.0 5.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · IA · Dewitt

9,477 Warehousing and storage, general merchandise employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 24 employers in Dewitt, 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 993 Miami DC 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - BDL6 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WAPYP - SCS PUYALLUP DISTRIBUTION CENTER - 11321 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boston Proper Distribution Center 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2520-Storm Lake, IA (Monsanto Co.) 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wastewater Treatment Plant 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Construction Services, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Weitz Company - Mission Critical - Microsoft DSM 14 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guardian Industries - DeWitt 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR Custom-Pak DeWitt 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guardian Industries 203 FTE
CITY-NEAR Genesis Medical Center- DeWitt 141 FTE
NAT-TCR 993 Miami DC 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Animal Medical Hospital 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Primex Plastics 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Moore Transport - Walkertown 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE NICKLES-COLUMBUS 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duvall Miles 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Mutual Door Kansas City, LLC 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laurel T & M 27 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, 2016. 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.