Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing · Iowa

HW Brand Manufacturing

Grinnell, IA · ~44 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HW Brand Manufacturing runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

HW Brand Manufacturing: 5.4 TCR = 164% of Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HW Brand Manufacturing safety composite

HW Brand Manufacturing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

HW Brand Manufacturing: 4.0 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2022

HW Brand Manufacturing's TCR rose 2.7 from 4.0 in 2018 to 6.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Grinnell, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #37/65
  • PHOTO Service Parts Organi…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Service Parts Organization (0.0 TCR gap)

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HW Brand Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HW Brand Manufacturing averages 5.4 TCR (164% of the Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HW Brand Manufacturing TCR series: 2018=4 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=11.6 · 2022=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where HW Brand Manufacturing falls in its industry

433 Cattle feeding and watering eq establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #37 safest of 65 Cattle feeding and watering eq employers in Iowa.

HW Brand Manufacturing (44 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 HW Brand Manufacturing
HW Brand Manufacturing (44 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

HW Brand Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Cattle feeding and watering equipment ma 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
2022 6.7 2.3 3 0 0
2021 11.6 11.6 5 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2018 4.0 2.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IA · Grinnell

433 Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 40 employers in Grinnell, 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 Service Parts Organization 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR MEYER MANUFACTURING CORPORATION 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Deere Des Moines Works 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HARVEST INTERNATIONAL INC 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms East 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE GAC 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2511-Beaman, IA (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2050-Clarion, IA (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America : Grinnell Windows 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0403 - Windows-Grinnell 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America : Customer Experience US 357 FTE
NAT-TCR 050 Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Manheim Riverside 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Alton Community Unit School District No. 11 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR General Services 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG728 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Signature Flight Support-MDW025 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Los Angeles Tree 49310 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE GoodLand Landscape Construction, Inc. 44 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.