Orthopedic devices manufacturing · Iowa

Brownmed - Spirit Lake

Spirit Lake, IA · ~48 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brownmed - Spirit Lake runs at 623% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Orthopedic devices manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Brownmed - Spirit Lake: 20.6 TCR = 623% of Orthopedic devices manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brownmed - Spirit Lake safety composite

Brownmed - Spirit Lake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

−10.6

2018→2022

Brownmed - Spirit Lake injury rate improved

Brownmed - Spirit Lake's TCR fell 10.6 from 31.2 in 2018 to 20.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 69.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=31.2 · 2019=69.3 · 2020=21.2 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=20.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Spirit Lake, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.6 · 623% of ind

  • DART 16.5 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO 21st Century Scienti…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 21st Century Scientific, Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Brownmed - Spirit Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brownmed - Spirit Lake averages 20.6 TCR (623% of the Orthopedic devices manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Brownmed - Spirit Lake TCR series: 2018=31.2 · 2019=69.3 · 2020=21.2 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=20.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Brownmed - Spirit Lake falls in its industry

555 Orthopedic devices manufacturi establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

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 5 Orthopedic devices manufacturi employers in Iowa.

Brownmed - Spirit Lake (48 employees, TCR 20.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Brownmed - Spirit Lake
Brownmed - Spirit Lake (48 employees, TCR 20.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Brownmed - Spirit Lake has fewer employees than the Orthopedic devices manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2022 20.6 16.5 1 4 0
2021 9.3 2.3 4 0 0
2020 21.2 6.1 8 6 0
2019 69.3 6.0 23 0 0
2018 31.2 5.7 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · IA · Spirit Lake

555 Orthopedic devices manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 23 employers in Spirit Lake, 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 21st Century Scientific, Inc. 20.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glenwood AR Location 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Molnlycke Manufacturing US - T&P 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CSC 3004 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE J&J Cattle Co 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMVC Management Services 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Administration Building 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greiner Buildings, Inc. 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Polaris Inc. Spirit Lake 460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Lake Facility 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakes Regional Healthcare 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure Fishing - Spirit Lake 307 FTE
NAT-TCR Headquarter 20.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Foulk Manor South 20.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Riverside Public Works Solid Waste Operations 20.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Copperleaf Memory Care of Schofield 20.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Volvo Trucks of Omaha Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Woodlands of Shaker Heights 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niagara Refining LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food Giant #535 48 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.