Truss Manufacturing · Iowa

Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss

Dyersville, IA · ~171 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss runs at 532% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truss Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss: 17.6 TCR = 532% of Truss Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss safety composite

Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−4.6

2016→2021

Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss injury rate improved

Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss's TCR fell 4.6 from 17.2 in 2016 to 12.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 25.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=17.2 · 2017=12.7 · 2018=25.9 · 2019=18.7 · 2020=18.3 · 2021=12.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · Dyersville, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 532% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO 205 Evergreen Truss
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 167 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 205 Evergreen Truss (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss averages 17.6 TCR (532% of the Truss Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss TCR series: 2016=17.2 · 2017=12.7 · 2018=25.9 · 2019=18.7 · 2020=18.3 · 2021=12.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss falls in its industry

421 Truss Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #7 safest of 8 Truss Manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss (171 employees, TCR 17.6) 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 Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss
Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss (171 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss has more 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
2021 12.6 10.7 20 0 0
2020 18.3 13.4 26 0 0
2019 18.7 12.2 25 4 0
2018 25.9 19.3 47 0 0
2017 12.7 9.0 22 2 0
2016 17.2 10.8 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · IA · Dyersville

421 Truss Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 28 employers in Dyersville, 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 205 Evergreen Truss 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR U.S. Truss Company - Springfield 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bluegrass Truss Company 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Select Trusses & Lumber, Inc. 17.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Marzetti Manufacturing Company Altoona 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux City Fabrication Plant 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton IA 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loparex LLC 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dyersville Store 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR IA ESAPCO 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modernfold 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR LS - DYERSVILLE-TRUSS 147 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Clair Shores Dpw/Water/Sewer/Motor Pool 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sarasota Manatee Day Program 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-01324 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-02734 17.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CT-Residential Community Homes 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frey Village 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guardian Care Nursing & Rehab Center 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE LCC 171 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.