Steel manufacturing · Iowa

O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls

Cedar Falls, IA · ~121 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls safety composite

O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls: 1.5 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.95× in 2024

O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls's TCR rose 2.4 from 1.5 in 2021 to 3.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Cedar Falls, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO California Steel Ind…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: California Steel Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls TCR series: 2021=1.5 · 2022=0.6 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

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 10 Steel manufacturing employers in Iowa.

O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls (121 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls
O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls (121 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

O'Neal Manufacturing-Cedar Falls has fewer employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 3.9 3.9 4 0 0
2022 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2021 1.5 0.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · IA · Cedar Falls

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 88 employers in Cedar Falls, 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 California Steel Industries 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nucor Steel Brandenburg 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PS Industries 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ArcelorMittal Coatesville 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wastewater Reclamation Facility 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Neumann Brothers, Inc 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Behnke Enterprises, Inc. 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monona 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Waterloo Works Product Engineering Center 1,508 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0590 - Cedar Falls IA DC 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0590 - Cedar Falls DC 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Home Services 752 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakeland Dry 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Microtrac Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR B&F Machine Co., Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Central Electric co-op 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stanleytown Operations LLC 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tex tech industries inc 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastown Distributors 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Victory Plumbing 121 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, 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.