Concrete reinforcing mesh made from purchased wire · Iowa

Iowa Steel & Wire Inc.

Centerville, IA · ~89 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa Steel & Wire Inc. runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Concrete reinforcing mesh made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade D.

Iowa Steel & Wire Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 152% of Concrete reinforcing mesh made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa Steel & Wire Inc. safety composite

Iowa Steel & Wire Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.0

2016→2024

Iowa Steel & Wire Inc. injury rate improved

Iowa Steel & Wire Inc.'s TCR fell 5.0 from 5.3 in 2016 to 0.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2017=4.1 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Centerville, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 152% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Lift-All Company Chi…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lift-All Company Chicago (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iowa Steel & Wire Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa Steel & Wire Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (152% of the Concrete reinforcing mesh made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Iowa Steel & Wire Inc. TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=4.1 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=6.4 · 2024=0.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Iowa Steel & Wire Inc. falls in its industry

270 Concrete reinforcing mesh made establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Concrete reinforcing mesh made employers in Iowa.

Iowa Steel & Wire Inc. (89 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Iowa Steel & Wire Inc.
Iowa Steel & Wire Inc. (89 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Iowa Steel & Wire Inc. has more employees than the Concrete reinforcing mesh made from purc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 0.4 0.2 3 0 0
2023 6.4 6.4 5 0 0
2022 7.7 3.9 6 0 0
2021 6.2 2.5 5 0 0
2017 4.1 2.0 4 0 0
2016 5.3 2.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · IA · Centerville

270 Concrete reinforcing mesh made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 28 employers in Centerville, 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 Lift-All Company Chicago 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR J Henry Holland (Virginia Beach, VA) 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Engineered Wire Products 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acme Wire Products Company, Inc. 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms Dows 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICF Ovation 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muscatine Power & Water Power Plant 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillphoenix, Inc 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bemis North America - Centerville 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-14010001-140101 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMCOR Flexibles North America 215 FTE
NAT-TCR A2Z Personnel 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Capital Steel Erectors, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Joby Aviation Marina 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eco Electric and Pluming Office 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Recovery Village at Columbus 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Recovery Village Cherry Hill 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE G.E. Mechanical, LLC 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE CEI Materials, LLC 89 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, 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.