Machine shops · Iowa

R. A. Wold & Sons Inc

Saint Ansgar, IA · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R. A. Wold & Sons Inc runs at 553% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

R. A. Wold & Sons Inc: 18.3 TCR = 553% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R. A. Wold & Sons Inc safety composite

R. A. Wold & Sons Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

R. A. Wold & Sons Inc: 8.2 → 28.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 28.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.19× in 2024

R. A. Wold & Sons Inc's TCR rose 20.0 from 8.2 in 2022 to 28.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Saint Ansgar, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.3 · 553% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #30/30
  • PHOTO Boyd Machine and Rep…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Boyd Machine and Repair Co Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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R. A. Wold & Sons Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R. A. Wold & Sons Inc averages 18.3 TCR (553% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

R. A. Wold & Sons Inc TCR series: 2022=8.2 · 2023=18.4 · 2024=28.2 · BLS 3.3

Where R. A. Wold & Sons Inc falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #30 safest of 30 Machine shops employers in Iowa.

R. A. Wold & Sons Inc (40 employees, TCR 18.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate R. A. Wold & Sons Inc
R. A. Wold & Sons Inc (40 employees, TCR 18.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

R. A. Wold & Sons Inc has fewer employees than the Machine shops 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
2024 28.2 3.5 7 1 0
2023 18.4 3.7 5 0 0
2022 8.2 5.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IA · Saint Ansgar

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 3 employers in Saint Ansgar, 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 Boyd Machine and Repair Co Inc 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barron Machine and Fabrication, Inc. 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fox Tool & Manufacturing Inc. 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alloy Hardfacing & Engineering 18.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hill Farm 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Cogen 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allamakee-Clayton Electric Cooperative 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Access Energy Cooperative 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Absolute Energy, L.L.C. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milkhouse Candle Co - Saint Ansgar 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Major Wire Texas 18.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Presbyterian Village at Hollidaysburg 18.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Casbr - San Bruno 18.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Avid Pallet Services HQ - Main 18.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE BK Resources 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Misko, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Griffins Warehouse-Douglas, LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redstone 40 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, 2023, 2022. 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.