Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing · Iowa

Klauer Manufacturing Company

Dubuque, IA · ~167 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Klauer Manufacturing Company runs at 280% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Klauer Manufacturing Company: 9.2 TCR = 280% of Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Klauer Manufacturing Company safety composite

Klauer Manufacturing Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2022→2024

Klauer Manufacturing Company injury rate improved

Klauer Manufacturing Company's TCR fell 1.8 from 10.2 in 2022 to 8.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=10.2 · 2023=9.0 · 2024=8.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 280% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #10/12
  • PHOTO Gates & Sons
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gates & Sons (0.0 TCR gap)

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Klauer Manufacturing Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Klauer Manufacturing Company averages 9.2 TCR (280% of the Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Klauer Manufacturing Company TCR series: 2022=10.2 · 2023=9 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Klauer Manufacturing Company falls in its industry

1,158 Sheet metal work (except stamp establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 12 Sheet metal work (except stamp employers in Iowa.

Klauer Manufacturing Company (167 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Klauer Manufacturing Company
Klauer Manufacturing Company (167 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Klauer Manufacturing Company has more employees than the Sheet metal work (except stampings) manu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 8.5 7.4 16 0 0
2023 9.0 9.0 15 0 0
2022 10.2 9.4 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · IA · Dubuque

1,158 Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, 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 Gates & Sons 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Matco Tools - Jamestown 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lloyd Industries, LLC 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Curbs Plus, Inc 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods, Inc. 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kooima Company LLC 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Packaging 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capital City Fruit, Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR Stamford, CT 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cottage Grove Mn - 3114 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR West Duluth Mn - 3074 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bell-Carter Foods LLC 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eastpointe Country Club 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Potawatomi Carter Casino Hotel 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salt Lake City Office 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE C2F Employment Inc. 167 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. 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.