Valves, industrial-type (e.g., check, gate, globe, relief, safety), manufacturing · Iowa

Clow Valve Company

Oskaloosa, IA · ~216 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Clow Valve Company runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Valves, industrial-type (e.g., check, gate, globe, relief, safety), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Clow Valve Company: 4.8 TCR = 145% of Valves, industrial-type (e.g., check, gate, globe, relief, safety), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Clow Valve Company safety composite

Clow Valve Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−2.3

2016→2019

Clow Valve Company injury rate improved

Clow Valve Company's TCR fell 2.3 from 5.9 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.9 · 2019=3.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332911 · Oskaloosa, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Kimray Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~216 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kimray Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Clow Valve Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Clow Valve Company averages 4.8 TCR (145% of the Valves, industrial-type (e.g., check, gate, globe, relief, safety), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Clow Valve Company TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2019=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Clow Valve Company falls in its industry

298 Valves, industrial-type (e.g., establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

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 7 Valves, industrial-type (e.g., employers in Iowa.

Clow Valve Company (216 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 Clow Valve Company
Clow Valve Company (216 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Clow Valve Company has more employees than the Valves, industrial-type (e.g., check, ga median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2019 3.7 1.6 8 1 0
2016 5.9 3.2 8 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332911 · IA · Oskaloosa

298 Valves, industrial-type (e.g., check, gate, globe, relief, safety), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 37 employers in Oskaloosa, 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 Kimray Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Watson McDaniel Company 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMRESIST 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shewood Valve LLC - Brooklyn, OH Plant 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE IA001 - IA-Des Moines-Pilot Travel Center 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR Musco Sports Lighting, LLC / Corporate Office 625 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mahaska County Hospital 558 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mahaska County Hospital dba Mahaska Health Partnership 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Portland - 850 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Alliance MWH - 974 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft. Lauderdale Ready Mix Plant 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wheelabrator Dutchess County L.L.C. 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shallenberger Construction 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Osburn Trucking and Pumping 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lincolnhelath /Coves Edge 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meadow Gold Englewood - Englewood 216 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: 2019, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.