Crop driers manufacturing · Iowa

Clear Lake Manufacturing

Clear Lake, IA · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Clear Lake Manufacturing runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Crop driers manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Clear Lake Manufacturing: 5.3 TCR = 162% of Crop driers manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Clear Lake Manufacturing safety composite

Clear Lake Manufacturing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Clear Lake Manufacturing: 3.4 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

Clear Lake Manufacturing's TCR rose 3.9 from 3.4 in 2023 to 7.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Clear Lake, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 162% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #34/65
  • PHOTO Valley Tool
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valley Tool (0.0 TCR gap)

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Clear Lake Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Clear Lake Manufacturing averages 5.3 TCR (162% of the Crop driers manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Clear Lake Manufacturing TCR series: 2023=3.4 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Clear Lake Manufacturing falls in its industry

433 Crop driers manufacturing establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 65 Crop driers manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Clear Lake Manufacturing (39 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Clear Lake Manufacturing
Clear Lake Manufacturing (39 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Clear Lake Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Crop driers manufacturing median and a higher 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
2024 7.3 2.4 3 0 0
2023 3.4 3.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IA · Clear Lake

433 Crop driers manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 25 employers in Clear 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 Valley Tool 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MEYER MANUFACTURING CORPORATION 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Deere Des Moines Works 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Full Vision Inc 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE GGDC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience: MRN1: Marion IA R&D 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Production 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Lake 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR One Vision 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10D8145 PHARMA CLEAR LAKE 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3495-10D8145 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR Serta Simmons Bedding 160 FTE
NAT-TCR Oakmont Manor 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 300000170783620 - TX-Grapevine-Field Office 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ShopRite of Monroe 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Rule Builders 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Applied Physical Metrology Akron 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carriage Inn Huntsville 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shawnee Specialties INC 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yates Engineering Services LLC 39 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: 2024, 2023. 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.