Coolers or ice chests, plastics (except foam), manufacturing · Iowa

Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc

Decorah, IA · ~180 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Coolers or ice chests, plastics (except foam), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc: 6.3 TCR = 191% of Coolers or ice chests, plastics (except foam), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc safety composite

Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc: 6.2 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2024

Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc's TCR rose 0.8 from 6.2 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Decorah, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 191% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #30/63
  • PHOTO Elkhart Plastics
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 85 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elkhart Plastics (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc averages 6.3 TCR (191% of the Coolers or ice chests, plastics (except foam), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=11 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=8.7 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc falls in its industry

2,838 Coolers or ice chests, plastic establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 63 Coolers or ice chests, plastic employers in Iowa.

Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc (180 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc
Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc (180 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Iowa Rotocast Plastics, Inc has more employees than the Coolers or ice chests, plastics (except median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 6.9 5.9 13 0 0
2023 3.4 1.7 6 0 0
2022 8.7 4.3 16 0 0
2021 4.8 4.2 8 0 0
2020 4.9 4.9 7 0 0
2019 7.2 3.9 9 4 0
2018 3.7 2.1 6 1 0
2017 11.0 5.9 13 2 0
2016 6.2 2.7 7 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IA · Decorah

2,838 Coolers or ice chests, plastics (except foam), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 38 employers in Decorah, 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 Elkhart Plastics 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tara Manufacturing Company Inc 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reeves Extruded Products Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sii - Chowchilla 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Muscatine Power & Water A/O Center 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kreg Enterprises, Inc. 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gary W Clem, Inc. dba ALMACO 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodharbor Molding & Millwork 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luther College 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decorah Human Services 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decorah Store 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR WinnMed 557 FTE
NAT-TCR Tampa TAM 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Home juice Corp Melrose Park 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1130 Lkq Birmingham 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Chief Buildings Rensselaer 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fisk Electric Company - Dallas, TX 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Husky Rack and Wire 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tooling Dynamics LLC 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corner Market #6077 180 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.