Steel manufacturing · Iowa

Flint Cliffs Manufacturing

Burlington, IA · ~57 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Flint Cliffs Manufacturing runs at 668% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Flint Cliffs Manufacturing: 22.0 TCR = 668% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Flint Cliffs Manufacturing safety composite

Flint Cliffs Manufacturing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 22.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−6.5

2021→2023

Flint Cliffs Manufacturing injury rate improved

Flint Cliffs Manufacturing's TCR fell 6.5 from 25.3 in 2021 to 18.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 114.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=25.3 · 2022=114.3 · 2023=18.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Burlington, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 22.0 · 668% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO FAB WELD STEEL LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FAB WELD STEEL LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Flint Cliffs Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Flint Cliffs Manufacturing averages 22.0 TCR (668% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Flint Cliffs Manufacturing TCR series: 2021=25.3 · 2022=114.3 · 2023=18.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Flint Cliffs Manufacturing falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Steel manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Flint Cliffs Manufacturing (57 employees, TCR 22.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 Flint Cliffs Manufacturing
Flint Cliffs Manufacturing (57 employees, TCR 22.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Flint Cliffs Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 18.8 7.0 8 0 0
2022 114.3 28.6 7 1 0
2021 25.3 5.1 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IA · Burlington

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 68 employers in Burlington, 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 FAB WELD STEEL LLC 21.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Braeburn Alloy Steel LLC 18.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Totten Tubes Inc 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACS Steel Company, LLC 16.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Winfield United - Vincent 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henning Companies, LLC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Hawk Roof Company 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guthrie Center Breaker Plant 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - BUR 727 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods Burlington 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Ignition Company Burlington Iowa Plant 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR CNH_Burlington 576 FTE
NAT-TCR Public Works Department 22.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St Marys Foundry 22.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kre-Bsl Husky Drum Hill Operation LLC 22.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Midvale #073 22.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Military & Veterans Affairs (7) 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Corrections (1) 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Stafford 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fusion Furniture Plant 3 57 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, 2021. 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.