Electrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work · Iowa

Nelson Electric Company

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~85 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson Electric Company runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Electrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work workplace, earning a grade A.

Nelson Electric Company: 0.6 TCR = 21% of Electrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Electric Company safety composite

Nelson Electric Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Nelson Electric Company: 0.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 3.02× in 2018

Nelson Electric Company's TCR rose 1.8 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 3.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Cedar Rapids, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 21% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #6/61
  • PHOTO VDH Electric, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VDH Electric, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nelson Electric Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson Electric Company averages 0.6 TCR (21% of the Electrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work BLS benchmark).

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

Nelson Electric Company TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=1.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Nelson Electric Company falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical, electrical wiring, establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 61 Electrical, electrical wiring, employers in Iowa.

Nelson Electric Company (85 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nelson Electric Company
Nelson Electric Company (85 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Nelson Electric Company has more employees than the Electrical, electrical wiring, and low v median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2018 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · IA · Cedar Rapids

4,550 Electrical, electrical wiring, and low voltage electrical work employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 466 employers in Cedar Rapids, 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 VDH Electric, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mott Electric, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier Communications LLC 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canyon River Electric 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc. -- Toledo SPSC 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4141_7899 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Products (Northern MAPL) 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE) 6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave 6,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRST EXPEDITED INC 3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Methodist Hospital 2,949 FTE
NAT-TCR HUNTSVILLE_AL 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Signode Industrial Products LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR REN450 Brand Standards 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 2073-ASA-20730100-FO 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE D'Onofrio's Food Center 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Core Converting Operations 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Oak Grove LLC 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Three Bears Resort 85 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.