Machine shops · Iowa

Machine Tool Engineering, Inc.

Charles City, IA · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Machine Tool Engineering, Inc. runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Machine Tool Engineering, Inc.: 6.8 TCR = 205% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Machine Tool Engineering, Inc. safety composite

Machine Tool Engineering, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Machine Tool Engineering, Inc.: 2.7 → 17.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2024

Machine Tool Engineering, Inc.'s TCR rose 14.6 from 2.7 in 2020 to 17.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Charles City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 205% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #17/30
  • PHOTO Homer City Location …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Homer City Location - MGKTECH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Machine Tool Engineering, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Machine Tool Engineering, Inc. averages 6.8 TCR (205% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Machine Tool Engineering, Inc. TCR series: 2020=2.7 · 2022=0.3 · 2024=17.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Machine Tool Engineering, Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #17 safest of 30 Machine shops employers in Iowa.

Machine Tool Engineering, Inc. (37 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Machine Tool Engineering, Inc.
Machine Tool Engineering, Inc. (37 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Machine Tool Engineering, Inc. has fewer 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 17.4 5.0 7 0 0
2022 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2020 2.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IA · Charles City

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 25 employers in Charles 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 Homer City Location - MGKTECH 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Excelco/Newbrook, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Shop 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR R&R Tool, Inc. Winchester 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rockwell City Warehouse 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux County Egg 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE OSI Gen Repair & Svc Wind Plt 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Lawrence (KS009) 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Simply Essentials 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis LLC. 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cambrex Charles City, Inc. 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR FLOYD COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER 184 FTE
NAT-TCR Santa Monica Amusements, LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Medford Particleboard 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Union Beer Distributors - Brooklyn 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1950 - Streamwood 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE DWM, Inc Latham, NY 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak Ridge Assisted Living of Hastings 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE MBDA Incorporated - Huntsville 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE J&S Rug Log Cabin 37 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, 2022, 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.