Automotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts (except springs) manufacturing · Iowa

Link Manufacturing, Ltd

Sioux Center, IA · ~193 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Link Manufacturing, Ltd runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Automotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts (except springs) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Link Manufacturing, Ltd: 2.3 TCR = 43% of Automotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts (except springs) manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Link Manufacturing, Ltd safety composite

Link Manufacturing, Ltd scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−0.4

2016→2024

Link Manufacturing, Ltd injury rate improved

Link Manufacturing, Ltd's TCR fell 0.4 from 3.1 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.1 · 2020=1.1 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336330 · Sioux Center, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 2.3 · 43% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK P55
  • PHOTO Specialty Products C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~193 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Specialty Products Company - Machine Shop Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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Link Manufacturing, Ltd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Link Manufacturing, Ltd averages 2.3 TCR (43% of the Automotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts (except springs) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Link Manufacturing, Ltd TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2020=1.1 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 5.4

Where Link Manufacturing, Ltd falls in its industry

134 Automotive, truck and bus susp establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Link Manufacturing, Ltd (193 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Link Manufacturing, Ltd
Link Manufacturing, Ltd (193 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 192 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Link Manufacturing, Ltd has more employees than the Automotive, truck and bus suspension ass median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 2.7 0.8 7 0 0
2020 1.1 0.0 2 0 0
2016 3.1 1.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336330 · IA · Sioux Center

134 Automotive, truck and bus suspension assemblies and parts (except springs) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 32 employers in Sioux Center, 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 Specialty Products Company - Machine Shop Location 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PMF Suspension 3128 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dura Automotive Systems 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR F&P Georgia MFG 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Afinitas- Mediapolis, Iowa Location 193 FTE
STATE-SIZE US02 Laurens Link Snacks, Inc. 193 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walter Scott, Jr. Energy Center 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Pet 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR Interstates/Harbor 1,090 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Sioux Center 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Sioux Center, IA 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats-LLC 453 FTE
NAT-TCR Heartland Express Atlanta 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR WATERTOWN 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cottage Grove Lumber 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TCCo-POR 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avidity Science, LLC 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago 47th Street NS 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #6527 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schulte Building Systems, Inc-Cullman 193 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, 2020, 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.