Machine shops · Iowa

East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo)

Farley, IA · ~159 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo) runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo): 5.5 TCR = 167% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo) safety composite

East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo) held a steady TCR band

East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo)'s TCR held near 0.2 from 5.4 in 2023 to 5.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.4 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Farley, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 167% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #14/30
  • PHOTO Advantech Manufactur…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advantech Manufacturing, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo) averages 5.5 TCR (167% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo) TCR series: 2023=5.4 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo) falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 30 Machine shops employers in Iowa.

East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo) (159 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo)
East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo) (159 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

East Iowa Machine Company (EIMCo) has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 5.6 2.1 8 0 0
2023 5.4 4.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IA · Farley

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 5 employers in Farley, 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 Advantech Manufacturing, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWISSLINE PRECISION LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patriot Manufacturing Group 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Standard Machine Inc. 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rembrandt Foods Thompson Operation 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux City - Main Office - 10-01 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Zenith DC 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4223-M3300 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Simon's Trucking Inc. 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR Behnke Enterprises, Inc. 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lund Manufacturing Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Top Grade Excavating, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Padub - Du Bois 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kyncr - Louisville - Healthcare 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 1 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6510 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wiair - Mke Air Gateway 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ilblo - Bloomington 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lornamead 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fredericka Manor 159 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.