Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing · Iowa

Harper Brush Works

Name: Harper Brush Works Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Fairfield, IA · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Harper Brush Works runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Harper Brush Works: 4.0 TCR = 121% of Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harper Brush Works safety composite

Harper Brush Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Harper Brush Works: 0.0 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.58× in 2021

Harper Brush Works's TCR rose 9.5 from 0.0 in 2018 to 9.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339994 · Fairfield, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

DART 6.3 DART
RANK #3/4
PHOTO Linzer Metter
BOOK 3y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Linzer Metter (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.5
The Wooster Br

4.4
Quickie Manufa

4.1
This site

4
Linzer Metter

4

What this shows Harper Brush Works averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Harper Brush Works TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=2.5 · 2021=9.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Harper Brush Works falls in its industry

47 Brushes, household-type and in establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 Brushes, household-type and in employers in Iowa.

Harper Brush Works (39 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 119 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Harper Brush Works has fewer employees than the Brushes, household-type and industrial, median and a higher 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
2021	9.5	6.3	3
2019	2.5	2.5	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339994 · IA · Fairfield

47 Brushes, household-type and industrial, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 30 employers in Fairfield, 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	Linzer Metter	METTER, GA	4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Quickie Manufacturing	EL PASO, TX	4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	The Wooster Brush Co. - North	WOOSTER, OH	4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Elgin Sweeping Services, Inc.	CHICAGO, IL	4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	GGDC	SHENANDOAH	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Corteva Agriscience: MRN1: Marion IA R&D	MARION	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Electric Production	AMES	39 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Crystal Lake	BRITT	39 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Eneric Petroleum Corp	Fairfield	711 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Maharishi International University (MIU)	Fairfield	500 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Jefferson County Health Center	Fairfield	348 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dexter Laundry Inc	Fairfield	228 FTE
NAT-TCR	TPM Delaware	New Castle, DE	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	ADESA Pittsburgh	New Stanton, PA	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Buildings and Grounds	Concord, NC	4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	National Door and Trim	Van Wert, OH	4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	China Basin	San Francisco, CA	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	USCS- Milford, DE	Milford, DE	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	AH4R - Atlanta	Norcross, GA	39 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ambler Industries, LLC	Furlong, PA	39 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: 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.