Farm tractors and attachments manufacturing · Iowa

GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville

Estherville, IA · ~139 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville runs at 483% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm tractors and attachments manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville: 15.9 TCR = 483% of Farm tractors and attachments manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville safety composite

GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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 15.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville: 14.1 → 17.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 17.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2019

GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville's TCR rose 3.8 from 14.1 in 2016 to 17.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Estherville, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.9 · 483% of ind

  • DART 13.5 DART
  • RANK #61/65
  • PHOTO Horsch LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Horsch LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville averages 15.9 TCR (483% of the Farm tractors and attachments manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville TCR series: 2016=14.1 · 2019=17.8 · BLS 3.3

Where GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville falls in its industry

433 Farm tractors and attachments establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 65 Farm tractors and attachments employers in Iowa.

GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville (139 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville
GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville (139 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville has more employees than the Farm tractors and attachments manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2019 17.8 13.5 25 0 0
2016 14.1 9.1 14 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IA · Estherville

433 Farm tractors and attachments manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 17 employers in Estherville, 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 Horsch LLC 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rivulis Irrigation Madera 16.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR GK MACHINE INC 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wil-Rich 16.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kinzler Construction Services-CIA 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE RELCO Locomotives, Inc. 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2231 LOWE S OF CEDAR RAPIDS IA 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-2503 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Holy Family Hospital 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Redwood Farms Meat Processors 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moveero Estherville Iowa 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Estherville Foods Inc 87 FTE
NAT-TCR Rule Steel Plant 1 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Industries of Denver Castle Rock 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02107 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Casey Health Care 15.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE JR Simplot Company-LL-Feedlot 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nessco Enterprises LLC DBA Meridian Products 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE 222 - Findlay 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington Penn Plastic Co., Inc. - Arden Division 139 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, 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.