Warehouses, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · Iowa

Iowa Operations

Lake Mills, IA · ~261 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa Operations runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Warehouses, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Iowa Operations: 4.7 TCR = 142% of Warehouses, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa Operations safety composite

Iowa Operations scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Iowa Operations: 4.3 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2017

Iowa Operations's TCR rose 0.8 from 4.3 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332311 · Lake Mills, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 142% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO MBCI Indianapolis
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~261 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MBCI Indianapolis (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iowa Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa Operations averages 4.7 TCR (142% of the Warehouses, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Iowa Operations TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Iowa Operations falls in its industry

393 Warehouses, prefabricated meta establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Warehouses, prefabricated meta employers in Iowa.

Iowa Operations (261 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Iowa Operations
Iowa Operations (261 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Iowa Operations has more employees than the Warehouses, prefabricated metal, manufac median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2017 5.1 3.0 12 0 0
2016 4.3 3.0 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332311 · IA · Lake Mills

393 Warehouses, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 7 employers in Lake Mills, 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 MBCI Indianapolis 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker Metal Products, Inc 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BlueScope Buildings North America 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Behlen Mfg. Co. 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Construction Products Inc 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.A. Ford Manufacturing Company Inc. 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Collins Decorah Operations 261 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palfinger US, Omaha Standard 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Mills 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winnebago Industries - Lake Mills 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norsemen Trucking Inc 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Mills Care Center 73 FTE
NAT-TCR Johnstown (Pajoh) 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bound Brook (Njbou) 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5195 Fayetteville, G 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5143 Jacksonville, F 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4028-AZ000 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ripley Entertainment - Myrtle Beach, SC 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE FGG R Boss 261 FTE
NAT-SIZE HealthTrust Supply Chain Continental Division 261 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: 2017, 2016. 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.