Wiring Harness Manufacturing · Iowa

Cobo USA

West Burlington, IA · ~87 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cobo USA runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wiring Harness Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Cobo USA: 4.0 TCR = 121% of Wiring Harness Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cobo USA safety composite

Cobo USA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Cobo USA: 1.2 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.69× in 2024

Cobo USA's TCR rose 5.5 from 1.2 in 2023 to 6.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334419 · West Burlington, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK P18
  • PHOTO GDSI
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GDSI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cobo USA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cobo USA averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the Wiring Harness Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cobo USA TCR series: 2023=1.2 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Cobo USA falls in its industry

334 Wiring Harness Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cobo USA (87 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 108 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Cobo USA
Cobo USA (87 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 108 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Cobo USA has fewer employees than the Wiring Harness Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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 6.7 6.7 5 0 0
2023 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334419 · IA · West Burlington

334 Wiring Harness Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 37 employers in West Burlington, 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 GDSI 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richardson Canvys 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Semahtronix - Flippin 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ComSonics of Massachusetts 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Croell Concrete Paving Crews East 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Munson Electric 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Estherville Foods Inc 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mason City Branch 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center-Main Hospital 1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 797 318 FTE
CITY-NEAR 797 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa, Inc. 198 FTE
NAT-TCR International Pipe & Supply, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Auto Shredding 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Scotland Road Market, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Agromillora California 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northland Service Center 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Miami Dadeland 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stafford 87 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.