Refrigeration controls, residential and commercial-type, manufacturing · Iowa

NIS, LLC North Liberty

North Liberty, IA · ~134 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NIS, LLC North Liberty runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Refrigeration controls, residential and commercial-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

NIS, LLC North Liberty: 5.6 TCR = 171% of Refrigeration controls, residential and commercial-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NIS, LLC North Liberty safety composite

NIS, LLC North Liberty scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

NIS, LLC North Liberty: 2.2 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.21× in 2021

NIS, LLC North Liberty's TCR rose 10.2 from 2.2 in 2017 to 12.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334512 · North Liberty, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 171% of ind

  • DART 12.5 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO Kinser & Kinser
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~134 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kinser & Kinser (0.3 TCR gap)

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NIS, LLC North Liberty in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NIS, LLC North Liberty averages 5.6 TCR (171% of the Refrigeration controls, residential and commercial-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

NIS, LLC North Liberty TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=12.5 · BLS 3.3

Where NIS, LLC North Liberty falls in its industry

50 Refrigeration controls, reside establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
NIS, LLC North Liberty (134 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate NIS, LLC North Liberty
NIS, LLC North Liberty (134 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 2.3

NIS, LLC North Liberty has more employees than the Refrigeration controls, residential and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 12.5 12.5 11 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 3 0 0
2017 2.2 2.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334512 · IA · North Liberty

50 Refrigeration controls, residential and commercial-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 21 employers in North Liberty, 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 Kinser & Kinser 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henderson Controls, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Heating & Cooling, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WYCKOFF HEATING AND COOLING 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience- Hedrick Production 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graham Construction Company - Central Iowa 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heartland Finishes, INC 134 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keokuk Steel Castings 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heartland Express Corporate 2,211 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Liberty 423 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 993 NORTH LIBERTY 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of North Liberty 104 FTE
NAT-TCR USA Kahului 884 W Mokuea St 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Viatera Facility 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Turkey Service Building 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cumberland International Trucks, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carlsbad 47220 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Strack and Van Til Portage 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside Ag Harvesting LLC 134 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allpro Parking - Columbus 134 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, 2017. 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.