Fabricated plate work manufacturing · Iowa

Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc.

Burlington, IA · ~35 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc. runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated plate work manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc.: 5.5 TCR = 165% of Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc. safety composite

Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−9.0

2016→2024

Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc. injury rate improved

Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc.'s TCR fell 9.0 from 12.6 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.6 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=7.0 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Burlington, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 165% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO Hol-Mac Corporation P1
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hol-Mac Corporation P1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc. averages 5.5 TCR (165% of the Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc. TCR series: 2016=12.6 · 2017=4.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=3 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=7 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc. falls in its industry

449 Fabricated plate work manufact establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 9 Fabricated plate work manufact employers in Iowa.

Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc.
Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Modern Welding Company of Iowa, Inc. has fewer employees than the Fabricated plate work manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 7.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 6.4 0.0 2 0 0
2021 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2019 8.5 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.9 2.5 2 0 0
2016 12.6 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · IA · Burlington

449 Fabricated plate work manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 68 employers in Burlington, 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 Hol-Mac Corporation P1 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TDR Systems, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ottenweller Company, Inc. MA 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Build Solutions, LLC (Port) 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE IA17-SEL-OSCEOLA HATCHERY' 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience - Algona Research - ALG2 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at ADM Cedar Rapids 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE On Track Construction, LLC 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - BUR 727 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods Burlington 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Ignition Company Burlington Iowa Plant 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR CNH_Burlington 576 FTE
NAT-TCR CMP - Alfred Service Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR La-Z-Boy South Ohio Distribution Center 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wurzbach LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR G&T Industries, Inc. of MI 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stanion Wholesale Electric Co., Inc.-Pratt, KS 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hill Mfg 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vermont Foundry Company 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE CO900 35 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, 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.