Rubber Manufacturing · Iowa

Fluid Connectors : Red Oak

Red Oak, IA · ~191 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fluid Connectors : Red Oak runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Rubber Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Fluid Connectors : Red Oak: 1.7 TCR = 51% of Rubber Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fluid Connectors : Red Oak safety composite

Fluid Connectors : Red Oak scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−2.5

2016→2023

Fluid Connectors : Red Oak injury rate improved

Fluid Connectors : Red Oak's TCR fell 2.5 from 2.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.5 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326220 · Red Oak, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Gates Corporation
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~191 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gates Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fluid Connectors : Red Oak in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fluid Connectors : Red Oak averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the Rubber Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Fluid Connectors : Red Oak TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=3.3 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=0.6 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Fluid Connectors : Red Oak falls in its industry

160 Rubber Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Rubber Manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Fluid Connectors : Red Oak (191 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 132 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fluid Connectors : Red Oak
Fluid Connectors : Red Oak (191 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 132 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Fluid Connectors : Red Oak has more employees than the Rubber Manufacturing median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2020 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.4 0.5 5 0 0
2018 4.2 1.1 8 0 0
2017 3.3 1.7 5 1 0
2016 2.5 2.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326220 · IA · Red Oak

160 Rubber Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 23 employers in Red Oak, 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 Gates Corporation 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gates Greenville 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Intralox LLC 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ContiTech Thermopol LLC - Continental, New Hampshire 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Innovative Injection Technologies 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novelis ALR Aluminum LLC (Davenport Casting) 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spahn & Rose Lumber Company - Dubuque Store 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2454 - Council Bluffs 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montgomery County Memorial Hospital 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fres-co System USA, Inc 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Oak - Main Store 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 841 RED OAK 73 FTE
NAT-TCR Fluid Connectors : Manitowoc HPD 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Crane Worldwide Logistics - CMH5 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lindy Paving 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Duct Cleaning Services Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Good Samaritan Society 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cannery Row Hotel Development Venture, re L.P. 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE AHF Products 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lemont Park District 191 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.