Foundries, steel (except investment) · Iowa

Keokuk Steel Castings

Keokuk, IA · ~134 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Keokuk Steel Castings runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Foundries, steel (except investment) workplace, earning a grade F.

Keokuk Steel Castings: 8.8 TCR = 268% of Foundries, steel (except investment) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Keokuk Steel Castings safety composite

Keokuk Steel Castings scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Keokuk Steel Castings: 5.8 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2024

Keokuk Steel Castings's TCR rose 6.2 from 5.8 in 2023 to 11.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331513 · Keokuk, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 268% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK P35
  • PHOTO Sawbrook Steel Casti…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sawbrook Steel Casting LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Keokuk Steel Castings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Keokuk Steel Castings averages 8.8 TCR (268% of the Foundries, steel (except investment) BLS benchmark).

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

Keokuk Steel Castings TCR series: 2023=5.8 · 2024=11.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Keokuk Steel Castings falls in its industry

94 Foundries, steel (except inves establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Keokuk Steel Castings (134 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 7.3 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Keokuk Steel Castings
Keokuk Steel Castings (134 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 78 employees and a TCR of 7.3

Keokuk Steel Castings has more employees than the Foundries, steel (except investment) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.3. 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 11.9 6.8 14 0 0
2023 5.8 2.9 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331513 · IA · Keokuk

94 Foundries, steel (except investment) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 35 employers in Keokuk, 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 Sawbrook Steel Casting LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centrifugal Castings, Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Plant 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Temperform LLC 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience- Hedrick Production 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graham Construction Company - Central Iowa 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heartland Finishes, INC 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE HUSCO International Maquoketa 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR Roquette America - Keokuk 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1431 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1431 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk 200 FTE
NAT-TCR Mngle - Glencoe 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Freedom Trucks, LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR IKE Transportation Inc 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Titan Modular Systems, INc 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westminster Palms 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Parallel Forest Products 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nchav - Havelock 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Usc - Hammonton 134 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. 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.