Machine bases, metal, manufacturing · Iowa

Kooima Ag Inc

Rock Valley, IA · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kooima Ag Inc runs at 247% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine bases, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kooima Ag Inc: 8.2 TCR = 247% of Machine bases, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kooima Ag Inc safety composite

Kooima Ag Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Kooima Ag Inc: 3.8 → 11.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

Kooima Ag Inc's TCR rose 7.9 from 3.8 in 2020 to 11.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Rock Valley, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 247% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO Defiance Metal Produ…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Defiance Metal Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kooima Ag Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kooima Ag Inc averages 8.2 TCR (247% of the Machine bases, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kooima Ag Inc TCR series: 2020=3.8 · 2021=15.1 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=3 · 2024=11.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Kooima Ag Inc falls in its industry

827 Machine bases, metal, manufact establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #11 safest of 18 Machine bases, metal, manufact employers in Iowa.

Kooima Ag Inc (30 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 Kooima Ag Inc
Kooima Ag Inc (30 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Kooima Ag Inc has fewer employees than the Machine bases, metal, manufacturing 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 11.7 2.9 4 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2022 7.3 0.0 2 0 0
2021 15.1 0.0 1 3 0
2020 3.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · IA · Rock Valley

827 Machine bases, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 15 employers in Rock Valley, 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 Defiance Metal Products 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Concise Industries 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 2 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Backyard Buddy, LLC 8.2 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 A&I Products - Rock Valley WHSE 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere A and I Products 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere A&I Products 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR A&I US 197 FTE
NAT-TCR Browder Painting 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 245 Gainesville 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dominion Florence, LLC 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mike Jackson Farms, Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Yuba City Waste Water Treatment Facility 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crystal Seasons Living Center 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE PM Plastics, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE LAX Ready Mix Plant 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, 2020. 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.