Letters for signs manufacturing · Iowa

Gemini Decorah

Name: Gemini Decorah Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Decorah, IA · ~162 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Gemini Decorah runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Letters for signs manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Gemini Decorah: 4.7 TCR = 141% of Letters for signs manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gemini Decorah safety composite

Gemini Decorah scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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).

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Gemini Decorah: 4.2 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2019

Gemini Decorah's TCR rose 0.9 from 4.2 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Decorah, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 141% of ind

DART 4.0 DART
RANK #3/4
PHOTO Gregory, Inc.
BOOK 2y book
INJ 16 inj
SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gregory, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.7
Gregory, Inc.

4.7
B2Sign, Inc.

4.7
Nagle Signs In

4.7
Charles Hampto

4.7

What this shows Gemini Decorah averages 4.7 TCR (141% of the Letters for signs manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Gemini Decorah TCR series: 2017=4.2 · 2019=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Gemini Decorah falls in its industry

405 Letters for signs manufacturin establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Letters for signs manufacturin employers in Iowa.

Gemini Decorah (162 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Gemini Decorah has more employees than the Letters for signs manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2019	5.1	4.0	9	0	0
2017	4.2	3.6	7	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · IA · Decorah

405 Letters for signs manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 38 employers in Decorah, 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	Gregory, Inc.	BUHLER, KS	4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	B2Sign, Inc.	POMONA, CA	4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nagle Signs Inc.	WATERLOO, IA	4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Charles Hampton's A-1 Signs, Inc	BURNS, TN	4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Kline Electric	DES MOINES	162 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SHIVVERS MANUFACTURING INC	CORYDON	162 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMES IA - 3356	AMES	162 FTE
STATE-SIZE	6979	ANKENY	162 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Luther College	Decorah	1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Decorah Human Services	Decorah	575 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Decorah Store	Decorah	575 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WinnMed	Decorah	557 FTE
NAT-TCR	BrightRidge	Johnson City, TN	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Community Living Centers, Inc.	Farmington, MI	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Black Gold Farms - INW	Winamac, IN	4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Thomas Eilen	Hampton, MN	4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bedford Hts	Bedford Heights, OH	162 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Scioto Trails	Lucasville, OH	162 FTE
NAT-SIZE	JH Lynch Cumberland	Cumberland, RI	162 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CIO Muncie	Muncie, IN	162 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: 2019, 2017. 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.