Apron supply services · Iowa

Phelps Uniform Services

Muscatine, IA · ~124 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Phelps Uniform Services runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Apron supply services workplace, earning a grade F.

Phelps Uniform Services: 5.0 TCR = 236% of Apron supply services BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Phelps Uniform Services safety composite

Phelps Uniform Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Phelps Uniform Services: 3.6 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2022

Phelps Uniform Services's TCR rose 2.8 from 3.6 in 2021 to 6.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812331 · Muscatine, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 236% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO Mission Linen Supply…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~124 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mission Linen Supply Chino 3400 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Phelps Uniform Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Phelps Uniform Services averages 5.0 TCR (236% of the Apron supply services BLS benchmark).

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

Phelps Uniform Services TCR series: 2021=3.6 · 2022=6.3 · BLS 2.1

Where Phelps Uniform Services falls in its industry

334 Apron supply services establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

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 6 Apron supply services employers in Iowa.

Phelps Uniform Services (124 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 0100200300400 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Phelps Uniform Services
Phelps Uniform Services (124 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Phelps Uniform Services has more employees than the Apron supply services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2022 6.3 4.8 8 0 0
2021 3.6 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812331 · IA · Muscatine

334 Apron supply services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 79 employers in Muscatine, 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 Mission Linen Supply Chino 3400 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houston Center Street 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unitex 401 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mission Linen Supply El Paso Texas 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Control Center 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4802_10943 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allied Blending LP 124 FTE
STATE-SIZE PB LEINER USA 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highway 61 982 FTE
CITY-NEAR HON Company Administration 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR SSAB Iowa Inc. 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) 466 FTE
NAT-TCR Stanco Metal Products - Grand Haven 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CJ Logging Equipment 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Spirit Mountain Recreation Area 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Contech Denst 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tower Nursing & Rehabilitation 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE S03757 - WM - Hooker 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wolf Industries 124 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Anthony's Nursing & Rehab CTR. LLC 124 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.