Machine guards, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · Iowa

Ideal Vinton

Vinton, IA · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ideal Vinton runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine guards, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ideal Vinton: 6.8 TCR = 205% of Machine guards, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ideal Vinton safety composite

Ideal Vinton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Ideal Vinton: 5.9 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Ideal Vinton's TCR rose 1.7 from 5.9 in 2021 to 7.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Vinton, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 205% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/18
  • PHOTO Roth Fabricating Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Roth Fabricating Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ideal Vinton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ideal Vinton averages 6.8 TCR (205% of the Machine guards, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ideal Vinton TCR series: 2021=5.9 · 2023=7.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ideal Vinton falls in its industry

827 Machine guards, sheet metal (e establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 18 Machine guards, sheet metal (e employers in Iowa.

Ideal Vinton (33 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ideal Vinton
Ideal Vinton (33 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Ideal Vinton has fewer employees than the Machine guards, sheet metal (except stam median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2023 7.6 0.0 2 0 0
2021 5.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · IA · Vinton

827 Machine guards, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 17 employers in Vinton, 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 Roth Fabricating Inc 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Lincoln Electric Company - Additive Solutions 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taco Metals, LLC. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AGC VA (LOC CODE: AGCVA1) 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Marshalltown 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IA Hatchery & Logistics 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE East-Central Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keokuk Contractors LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Gay Hospital 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR CITY OF VINTON 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 462 VINTON 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vinton Lutheran Home 103 FTE
NAT-TCR Gargoyle Granite & Marble 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Village at Gleannloch Farms 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR J. Winkler & Sons 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Berkshire Custom Coating, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE CED Greentech (PC 1132) 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Inc. (PC3289) 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Electrical Distributors (Pc0234) 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE 104785 DLR Cecil 33 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, 2021. 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.