Truss Manufacturing · Iowa

Ls - Story City

Story City, IA · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ls - Story City runs at 286% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truss Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ls - Story City: 9.4 TCR = 286% of Truss Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ls - Story City safety composite

Ls - Story City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.0

2023→2024

Ls - Story City injury rate improved

Ls - Story City's TCR fell 10.0 from 14.4 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=14.4 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · Story City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 286% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #2/8
  • PHOTO ZTC Elkhart
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ZTC Elkhart (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ls - Story City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ls - Story City averages 9.4 TCR (286% of the Truss Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ls - Story City TCR series: 2023=14.4 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ls - Story City falls in its industry

421 Truss Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 8 Truss Manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Ls - Story City (54 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ls - Story City
Ls - Story City (54 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Ls - Story City has fewer employees than the Truss Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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 4.4 3.0 1 2 0
2023 14.4 5.8 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · IA · Story City

421 Truss Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 16 employers in Story City, 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 ZTC Elkhart 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 578 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4702 - Iron Ridge Truss Plant 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magbee Contractors Supply Truss Division 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Graettinger 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Service Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Creek Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettendorf Service Center 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Packaging Corporation 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bethany Manor, Inc 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bethany Life 270 FTE
NAT-TCR Paget - Gettysburg 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Reifel Industries Inc 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Computer Components Corporation 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hodge Tool 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Chubbuck 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Derse Pittsburgh 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preferred Electrical Contractors, Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE DTW 54 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.