Machine shops · Iowa

Kooima Company LLC

Rock Valley, IA · ~167 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kooima Company LLC runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Kooima Company LLC: 8.6 TCR = 262% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kooima Company LLC safety composite

Kooima Company LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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 8.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Kooima Company LLC: 3.6 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.12× in 2024

Kooima Company LLC's TCR rose 1.3 from 3.6 in 2016 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 16.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Rock Valley, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 262% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #21/30
  • PHOTO Erie Forge and Steel…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 112 inj
  • SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Erie Forge and Steel Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kooima Company LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kooima Company LLC averages 8.6 TCR (262% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Kooima Company LLC TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=9.4 · 2018=10.4 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=16.4 · 2023=10.7 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kooima Company LLC falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 30 Machine shops employers in Iowa.

Kooima Company LLC (167 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kooima Company LLC
Kooima Company LLC (167 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kooima Company LLC has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 4.8 1.1 9 0 0
2023 10.7 3.2 20 0 0
2021 16.4 8.5 24 5 0
2020 6.4 3.2 7 3 0
2019 7.3 2.1 14 0 0
2018 10.4 4.4 17 2 0
2017 9.4 3.9 15 2 0
2016 3.6 1.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IA · Rock Valley

1,821 Machine shops 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 Erie Forge and Steel Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR HitchDoc 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duratrack 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yarbrough Industries, Inc 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods, Inc. 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Klauer Manufacturing Company 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Evergreen Packaging 167 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capital City Fruit, Inc. 167 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 Wisconsin Precision Casting Corp 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Capital Hotel Company I dba Courtyard by Marriott 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Trego/Dugan Aviation Inc Geg 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Hiram 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chief Container Company, Inc. 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Concordia at Rebecca Residence 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden State Eng 167 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kyocera International 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.