Brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing · Iowa

Fairfield - Harper Brush

Name: Fairfield - Harper Brush Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Fairfield, IA · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Fairfield - Harper Brush runs at 217% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Fairfield - Harper Brush: 7.2 TCR = 217% of Brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fairfield - Harper Brush safety composite

Fairfield - Harper Brush scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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).

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Fairfield - Harper Brush: 4.0 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2023

Fairfield - Harper Brush's TCR rose 6.3 from 4.0 in 2022 to 10.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339994 · Fairfield, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 217% of ind

DART 5.2 DART
RANK #4/4
PHOTO Schaefer Brush Mfg, …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schaefer Brush Mfg, LLC (0.3 TCR gap)

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Spiral Brushes

7.9
Schaefer Brush

7.5
This site

7.2
Felton Incorpo

6.4
LINZER PRODUCT

6.2

What this shows Fairfield - Harper Brush averages 7.2 TCR (217% of the Brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Fairfield - Harper Brush TCR series: 2022=4 · 2023=10.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Fairfield - Harper Brush falls in its industry

47 Brooms, hand and machine, manu establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade F

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 Brooms, hand and machine, manu employers in Iowa.

Fairfield - Harper Brush (26 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 119 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Fairfield - Harper Brush has fewer employees than the Brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023	10.3	5.2	2	0	0
2022	4.0	4.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339994 · IA · Fairfield

47 Brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 30 employers in Fairfield, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Schaefer Brush Mfg, LLC	WAUKESHA, WI	7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Spiral Brushes, Inc.	STOW, OH	7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Felton Incorporated	LONDONDERRY, NH	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	LINZER PRODUCTS CORP	METTER, GA	6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Eastwood Sow Unit	HAWKEYE	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	4806-Urbandale, IA	URBANDALE	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DBQ Downtown Office	DUBUQUE	26 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative	BLOOMFIELD	26 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eneric Petroleum Corp	Fairfield	711 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Maharishi International University (MIU)	Fairfield	500 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Jefferson County Health Center	Fairfield	348 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dexter Laundry Inc	Fairfield	228 FTE
NAT-TCR	Hannaford Agronomy/Grain	Hannaford, ND	7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	RK-117-Crossville ( RK-117 )	Crossville, TN	7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	IMC Rancho Cucamonga	Rancho Cucamonga, CA	7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mobile Flea Market	Mobile, AL	7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	C&B A3 Communications Greenville, SC 702	Greenville, SC	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fit Turf - Denver South Branch	Centennial, CO	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Rancho Cordova	Rancho Cordova, CA	26 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc 29DW	Rancho Dominguez, CA	26 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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