Metal cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing · Iowa

Independent Can Company-Ft Madison

Fort Madison, IA · ~32 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Independent Can Company-Ft Madison runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Metal cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Independent Can Company-Ft Madison: 2.6 TCR = 80% of Metal cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Independent Can Company-Ft Madison safety composite

Independent Can Company-Ft Madison scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

Independent Can Company-Ft Madison held a steady TCR band

Independent Can Company-Ft Madison's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.1 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332431 · Fort Madison, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Ball Beverage Pkg 15…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ball Beverage Pkg 152 Williamsburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Independent Can Company-Ft Madison in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Independent Can Company-Ft Madison averages 2.6 TCR (80% of the Metal cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Independent Can Company-Ft Madison TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.1 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Independent Can Company-Ft Madison falls in its industry

217 Metal cans, light gauge metal, establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Metal cans, light gauge metal, employers in Iowa.

Independent Can Company-Ft Madison (32 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Independent Can Company-Ft Madison
Independent Can Company-Ft Madison (32 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Independent Can Company-Ft Madison has fewer employees than the Metal cans, light gauge metal, manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 9.1 0.0 3 0 0
2021 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332431 · IA · Fort Madison

217 Metal cans, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 32 employers in Fort Madison, 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 Ball Beverage Pkg 152 Williamsburg 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silgan Containers Edison 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ball Beverage Pkg 151 Golden 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardagh Metal Packaging - Winston-Salem 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE GSC Agribusiness 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nursery Department- Fuss Office 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley North 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Washington 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Madison, IA 554 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa State Penitentiary 486 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Madison Community Hospital 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Scotts Company - Fort Madison 325 FTE
NAT-TCR Raycap, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlas Paving Company 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SAFTCART 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Brandon 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Camden Metal Company 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE New England Union Co. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fermol Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE TXW005 32 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: 2024, 2023, 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.