Construction machinery manufacturing · Iowa

Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA)

Laurens, IA · ~54 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA) runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA): 4.2 TCR = 127% of Construction machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA) safety composite

Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA) held a steady TCR band

Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA)'s TCR held near 0.0 from 4.5 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333120 · Laurens, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/25
  • PHOTO TEI Rock Drills
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TEI Rock Drills (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA) averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Construction machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA) TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA) falls in its industry

400 Construction machinery manufac establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 25 Construction machinery manufac employers in Iowa.

Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA) (54 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA)
Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA) (54 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Pengo Corporation (Laurens, IA) has fewer employees than the Construction machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 4.5 0.0 2 0 0
2020 5.8 3.9 3 0 0
2019 3.3 0.0 2 0 0
2018 2.9 0.0 0 2 0
2016 4.5 1.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333120 · IA · Laurens

400 Construction machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 7 employers in Laurens, 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 TEI Rock Drills 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manitou Group Yankton SD 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR JCB INC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wausau New Berlin 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Graettinger 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Service Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Creek Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettendorf Service Center 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR US02 Laurens Link Snacks, Inc. 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bobalee Hydraulics 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jack Links Laurens Distribution Center 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fisher Hydraulics 66 FTE
NAT-TCR Jay-Bee Oil & Gas, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard by Marriott Lafayette Airport 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nitrex, Inc. CH Operations 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 3078 Keystone 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE D&W, Inc. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Riff Distilling 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG019 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mittler Corporation 54 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, 2019, 2018, 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.