Medical thermometers manufacturing · Iowa

Katecho-01

Des Moines, IA · ~459 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Katecho-01 runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Medical thermometers manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Katecho-01: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Medical thermometers manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Katecho-01 safety composite

Katecho-01 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Katecho-01: 2.2 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2017

Katecho-01's TCR rose 3.0 from 2.2 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339112 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Atrion Medical Produ…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~459 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atrion Medical Products, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Katecho-01 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Katecho-01 averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Medical thermometers manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Katecho-01 TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Katecho-01 falls in its industry

741 Medical thermometers manufactu establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

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 Medical thermometers manufactu employers in Iowa.

Katecho-01 (459 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02,0004,0006,0008,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Katecho-01
Katecho-01 (459 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 174 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Katecho-01 has more employees than the Medical thermometers manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2017 5.3 4.2 20 0 0
2016 2.2 1.8 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339112 · IA · Des Moines

741 Medical thermometers manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, 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 Atrion Medical Products, Inc. 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arthrex Logistics Center 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coherex 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nurse Assist LLC 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Polaris Inc. Spirit Lake 460 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trapeze Software Group, Inc 460 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mahaska County Hospital dba Mahaska Health Partnership 458 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Dubuque - Transporation 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR Walcott St Warehouse Location #01 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR KIK Chicago 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vee Pak - Hodgkins, IL 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bliss 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ab Sciex LLC 459 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ocala Facility 459 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tracker Marine-Lebanon-2 459 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jostens - Broadway 459 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.