Farm wagons manufacturing · Iowa

Meridian manufacturing

Storm Lake, IA · ~133 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Meridian manufacturing runs at 332% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm wagons manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Meridian manufacturing: 10.9 TCR = 332% of Farm wagons manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meridian manufacturing safety composite

Meridian manufacturing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

−3.9

2021→2024

Meridian manufacturing injury rate improved

Meridian manufacturing's TCR fell 3.9 from 14.9 in 2021 to 11.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=14.9 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=13.0 · 2024=11.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Storm Lake, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 332% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #56/65
  • PHOTO Titan West Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Titan West Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Meridian manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Meridian manufacturing averages 10.9 TCR (332% of the Farm wagons manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Meridian manufacturing TCR series: 2021=14.9 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=13 · 2024=11 · BLS 3.3

Where Meridian manufacturing falls in its industry

433 Farm wagons manufacturing establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 65 Farm wagons manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Meridian manufacturing (133 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Meridian manufacturing
Meridian manufacturing (133 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Meridian manufacturing has more employees than the Farm wagons manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 11.0 11.0 13 0 0
2023 13.0 13.0 11 0 0
2022 4.8 4.0 6 0 0
2021 14.9 14.1 18 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IA · Storm Lake

433 Farm wagons manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 31 employers in Storm Lake, 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 Titan West Inc. 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minden Machine Shop, Inc 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nelson Mfg. shop 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shamrock Orchards, LLC 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schaal Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc. 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moveero Armstrong Iowa 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coilcraft - Hawarden 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Storm Lake Plant 2,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Storm Lake Turkey Plant 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buena Vista Regional Medical Center 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1526 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Northern Dutchess Hospital 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DLD1 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DCA6 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Renaissance - Appleton 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hilo Medical Investors Ltd dba Hale Anuenue Restorative Care Center 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wabash Castings LLC 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hope Human Services - Vancouver 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Village of St. George 133 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, 2022, 2021. 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.