Horse trailers (except fifth-wheel-type) manufacturing · Iowa

Featherlite Trailers

Cresco, IA · ~351 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Featherlite Trailers runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Horse trailers (except fifth-wheel-type) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Featherlite Trailers: 4.3 TCR = 130% of Horse trailers (except fifth-wheel-type) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Featherlite Trailers safety composite

Featherlite Trailers scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

Featherlite Trailers held a steady TCR band

Featherlite Trailers's TCR held near 0.1 from 5.3 in 2019 to 5.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.3 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336214 · Cresco, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO American Made Produc…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 75 inj
  • SIZE ~351 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: American Made Products Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Featherlite Trailers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Featherlite Trailers averages 4.3 TCR (130% of the Horse trailers (except fifth-wheel-type) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Featherlite Trailers TCR series: 2019=5.3 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Featherlite Trailers falls in its industry

262 Horse trailers (except fifth-w establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

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 9 Horse trailers (except fifth-w employers in Iowa.

Featherlite Trailers (351 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Featherlite Trailers
Featherlite Trailers (351 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Featherlite Trailers has more employees than the Horse trailers (except fifth-wheel-type) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 5.4 2.2 12 5 0
2023 5.2 2.3 16 2 0
2022 2.9 2.4 11 0 0
2021 3.4 2.4 11 2 0
2020 3.6 2.1 10 2 0
2019 5.3 3.8 15 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336214 · IA · Cresco

262 Horse trailers (except 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 American Made Products Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Truck Accessories Group Midwest 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keystone RV Dutchmen - Plant 803 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 21 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Urbandale - Main Store 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1901 - West Des Moines SW 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allsteel Administration 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE URBANDALE IA 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Featherlite, Inc. 433 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 Hoke Mills Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Enfield Markets LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Juneau International Airport 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 403012-Merrimack | NH | GOF-300 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd. - Mississippi 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Quincy 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mci-Ground Ops 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry 351 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.