Horse trailers, fifth-wheel-type, manufacturing · Iowa

Featherlite, Inc.

Cresco, IA · ~433 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Featherlite, Inc. runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Horse trailers, fifth-wheel-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Featherlite, Inc.: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Horse trailers, fifth-wheel-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Featherlite, Inc. safety composite

Featherlite, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−0.4

2016→2018

Featherlite, Inc. injury rate improved

Featherlite, Inc.'s TCR fell 0.4 from 3.3 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2018=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Cresco, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #6/24
  • PHOTO Crookston
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~433 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Crookston (0.0 TCR gap)

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Featherlite, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Featherlite, Inc. averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Horse trailers, fifth-wheel-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Featherlite, Inc. TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2018=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Featherlite, Inc. falls in its industry

474 Horse trailers, fifth-wheel-ty establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 24 Horse trailers, fifth-wheel-ty employers in Iowa.

Featherlite, Inc. (433 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Featherlite, Inc.
Featherlite, Inc. (433 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Featherlite, Inc. has more employees than the Horse trailers, fifth-wheel-type, manufa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2018 2.9 1.3 11 0 0
2016 3.3 1.8 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · IA · Cresco

474 Horse trailers, fifth-wheel-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 22 employers in Cresco, 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 Crookston 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gooseneck Trailer Mfg. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR West-Mark Manufacturing 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stoughton Part Sales LLC 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Collaboration Center 433 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greater Regional Medical Center 433 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burke Corporation 432 FTE
STATE-SIZE Norway 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR Featherlite Trailers 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donaldson Filtration 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donaldson Company 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regional Health Services of Howard County 132 FTE
NAT-TCR 2904-ASM-ND 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta (Gamav) 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowling Green (Kybow) 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Shreveport (Lashe) 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Jersey Pool Management, LLC - NNJ 433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commerce Office 433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems, Inc. 433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookview 433 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: 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.