Zinc die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing · Iowa

DECO Products

Decorah, IA · ~204 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DECO Products runs at 360% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Zinc die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

DECO Products: 11.9 TCR = 360% of Zinc die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DECO Products safety composite

DECO Products scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

DECO Products: 5.1 → 14.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 21.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2022

DECO Products's TCR rose 9.6 from 5.1 in 2016 to 14.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 21.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331523 · Decorah, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 360% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Cast Specialties, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 89 inj
  • SIZE ~204 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cast Specialties, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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DECO Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DECO Products averages 11.9 TCR (360% of the Zinc die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

DECO Products TCR series: 2016=5.1 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=21.1 · 2022=14.7 · BLS 3.3

Where DECO Products falls in its industry

221 Zinc die-castings, unfinished, establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Zinc die-castings, unfinished, employers in Iowa.

DECO Products (204 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate DECO Products
DECO Products (204 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 4.7

DECO Products has more employees than the Zinc die-castings, unfinished, manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 14.7 8.8 29 1 0
2018 21.1 10.6 36 2 0
2017 6.5 3.2 14 0 0
2016 5.1 1.4 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331523 · IA · Decorah

221 Zinc die-castings, unfinished, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 38 employers in Decorah, 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 Cast Specialties, Inc. 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amco Machine 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison Kipp Corporation - North 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aallied Die Casting 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Deere A&I Products 204 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1800 - Sioux City 204 FTE
STATE-SIZE MercyOne Clinton North Health Plaza-MHS-IA/NE 204 FTE
STATE-SIZE Van Maanen Electric, Inc. 205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luther College 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decorah Human Services 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decorah Store 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR WinnMed 557 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0005-0004-00064 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00733 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 268800-South Saint Paul Po 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 161569-Chi-Niles Br 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kirby Foods IGA Plus 204 FTE
NAT-SIZE Human Service 204 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens Corning Medina Roofing Plant 204 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elizabeth, NJ - West 3rd St 204 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, 2018, 2017, 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.