Tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum · Iowa

Dee Zee Extrusion

Des Moines, IA · ~74 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dee Zee Extrusion runs at 149% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum workplace, earning a grade D.

Dee Zee Extrusion: 4.9 TCR = 149% of Tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dee Zee Extrusion safety composite

Dee Zee Extrusion scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Dee Zee Extrusion: 4.2 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.12× in 2024

Dee Zee Extrusion's TCR rose 7.5 from 4.2 in 2016 to 11.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331318 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 149% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK P29
  • PHOTO SignComp, LLC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SignComp, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dee Zee Extrusion in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dee Zee Extrusion averages 4.9 TCR (149% of the Tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum BLS benchmark).

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

Dee Zee Extrusion TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=11.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Dee Zee Extrusion falls in its industry

204 Tube made by drawing or extrud establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dee Zee Extrusion (74 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dee Zee Extrusion
Dee Zee Extrusion (74 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Dee Zee Extrusion has fewer employees than the Tube made by drawing or extruding purcha median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 11.7 10.4 9 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2022 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2021 3.9 2.6 3 0 0
2020 3.2 1.6 2 0 0
2019 5.1 3.8 4 0 0
2018 8.2 4.9 5 0 0
2016 4.2 1.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331318 · IA · Des Moines

204 Tube made by drawing or extruding purchased aluminum employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, 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 SignComp, LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CCL Metal Science 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-States Aluminum 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WKW Extrusions Erbsloeh Aluminum Solutions 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Iowa Falls 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worley Field Services - ADM Clinton 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mittera - Creative Services 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Hartley Plant 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Omaha Ne - 248 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockwall Nursing Care Center 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Transpro Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR McKay's Market Myrtle Point #7 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Buffalo Ny - 055 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tecnica Environmental Services, Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 440 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 452 74 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.