Material handling equipment manufacturing · Iowa

PVS Chantland - MHS

Dakota City, IA · ~92 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PVS Chantland - MHS runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Material handling equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

PVS Chantland - MHS: 3.5 TCR = 105% of Material handling equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PVS Chantland - MHS safety composite

PVS Chantland - MHS scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2016→2023

PVS Chantland - MHS injury rate improved

PVS Chantland - MHS's TCR fell 2.6 from 3.8 in 2016 to 1.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.8 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333922 · Dakota City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Atlas Equipment Serv…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atlas Equipment Services Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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PVS Chantland - MHS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PVS Chantland - MHS averages 3.5 TCR (105% of the Material handling equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

PVS Chantland - MHS TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where PVS Chantland - MHS falls in its industry

361 Material handling equipment ma establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 Material handling equipment ma employers in Iowa.

PVS Chantland - MHS (92 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate PVS Chantland - MHS
PVS Chantland - MHS (92 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.5

PVS Chantland - MHS has more employees than the Material handling equipment manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2022 3.4 1.1 3 0 0
2021 5.6 2.2 5 0 0
2016 3.8 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333922 · IA · Dakota City

361 Material handling equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Atlas Equipment Services Inc 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gorbel, Inc Henrietta 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ohio Blow Pipe 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schenck Process LLC - Whitewater 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux City Corporate Building 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Communication Data Link - Grimes 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shaw Electric Inc at Home Office 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bowker Pinnacle Mechanical ,LLC 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chantland-MHS Company 90 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1757 Hinesville, GA 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Manuel Luis Construction Company, Inc./M Luis Products, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Muskegon Plant - 16 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Medical Technologies North Manchester 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE KB Home - Corporate 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Oaks at Northpointe 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Children & Youth Services 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA028 92 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.