Animal traps, metal (except wire), manufacturing · Iowa

Kness Manufacturing

Albia, IA · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kness Manufacturing runs at 362% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal traps, metal (except wire), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kness Manufacturing: 11.9 TCR = 362% of Animal traps, metal (except wire), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kness Manufacturing safety composite

Kness Manufacturing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kness Manufacturing: 6.8 → 18.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2024

Kness Manufacturing's TCR rose 11.9 from 6.8 in 2021 to 18.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Albia, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 362% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #16/18
  • PHOTO Precision Laser & Ma…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Precision Laser & Manufacturing LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kness Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kness Manufacturing averages 11.9 TCR (362% of the Animal traps, metal (except wire), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kness Manufacturing TCR series: 2021=6.8 · 2022=18.6 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=18.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Kness Manufacturing falls in its industry

827 Animal traps, metal (except wi establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #16 safest of 18 Animal traps, metal (except wi employers in Iowa.

Kness Manufacturing (30 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kness Manufacturing
Kness Manufacturing (30 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Kness Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Animal traps, metal (except wire), manuf 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 18.7 3.7 5 0 0
2023 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 18.6 14.9 5 0 0
2021 6.8 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · IA · Albia

827 Animal traps, metal (except wire), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 12 employers in Albia, 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 Precision Laser & Manufacturing LLC 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Behlen Technology & Manufacturing 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Griffin Industries Corp. 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR T.A. PELSUE 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monroe County Hospital and Clinics 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR RELCO Locomotives, Inc. 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Machine, Inc. 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Albia - Main Store 83 FTE
NAT-TCR HWE Wareham Insulation 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 9434 - Albany Fulfillment Center 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR US Bronze Foundry & Machine 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Triangle Distributing Company 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Waters- Franklin 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE USGS 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard by Marriott - New Albany 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Chemical Solutions, Telfair 30 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. 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.