Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Iowa

Oelwein Facility

Oelwein, IA · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oelwein Facility runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Oelwein Facility: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oelwein Facility safety composite

Oelwein Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Oelwein Facility: 0.0 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2019

Oelwein Facility's TCR rose 7.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Oelwein, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #15/24
  • PHOTO Cooper Steel of Virg…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cooper Steel of Virginia, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oelwein Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oelwein Facility averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Oelwein Facility TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=12.6 · 2019=7 · BLS 3.3

Where Oelwein Facility falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 24 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Iowa.

Oelwein Facility (23 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Oelwein Facility
Oelwein Facility (23 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Oelwein Facility has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2019 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2018 12.6 4.2 1 2 0
2017 6.6 0.0 0 1 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · IA · Oelwein

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 26 employers in Oelwein, 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 Cooper Steel of Virginia, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Plate (Akron) 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RBS Manufacturing 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fab Steel - Flannery 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oelwein Store 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oelwein Human Services 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR EAST PENN OELWEIN 321 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oelwein Iowa 178 FTE
NAT-TCR Andersen Consolidation Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kw International(Ga_ellenwood) 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanson Cold Storage Co. of Indiana - Hobart 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 8701 W 50th Street 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Colorado Springs - 538 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hartford - 290 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson - 054 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kennesaw - 121 23 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: 2019, 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.