Farm wagons manufacturing · Iowa

Dethmers Mfg Co

Boyden, IA · ~269 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dethmers Mfg Co runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm wagons manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dethmers Mfg Co: 8.3 TCR = 252% of Farm wagons manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dethmers Mfg Co safety composite

Dethmers Mfg Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2017→2024

Dethmers Mfg Co injury rate improved

Dethmers Mfg Co's TCR fell 1.6 from 8.4 in 2017 to 6.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.4 · 2018=10.0 · 2019=10.2 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=8.0 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=6.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Boyden, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 252% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #50/65
  • PHOTO Grossi Fabrication, …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 120 inj
  • SIZE ~269 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grossi Fabrication, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dethmers Mfg Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dethmers Mfg Co averages 8.3 TCR (252% of the Farm wagons manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dethmers Mfg Co TCR series: 2017=8.4 · 2018=10 · 2019=10.2 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=8 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Dethmers Mfg Co falls in its industry

433 Farm wagons manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #50 safest of 65 Farm wagons manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Dethmers Mfg Co (269 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Dethmers Mfg Co
Dethmers Mfg Co (269 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Dethmers Mfg Co has more employees than the Farm wagons 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 6.9 3.1 13 5 0
2023 8.6 3.7 16 7 0
2021 8.0 4.5 23 0 0
2020 6.2 3.7 14 3 0
2019 10.2 3.5 16 10 0
2018 10.0 5.4 22 4 0
2017 8.4 5.2 16 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IA · Boyden

433 Farm wagons manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Boyden, 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 Grossi Fabrication, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sukup Manly Steel Coil Facility 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR RC PACKING- SALINAS VALLEY 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walker Manufacturing Company 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Collis INC 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa DOT - Bureau Of Investigation 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6728-00030023-29 270 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clysar, LLC 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Natural Beauty Growers, LLC - Boyden IA 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farmers Coop Society-Boyden 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boyden 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Los Banos Processing Plant 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresno 213 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Spokane 232 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cheeseman LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ridgeview Behavioral Health Services 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Future Ford Inc 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ragle Construction 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wasco Inc 269 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.