Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing · Iowa

R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc.

St. Ansgar, IA · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc. runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc.: 10.4 TCR = 192% of Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc. safety composite

R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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)
F 10.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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%).

Rising injury rate

R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc.: 7.2 → 13.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc.'s TCR rose 6.4 from 7.2 in 2018 to 13.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · St. Ansgar, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 10.4 · 192% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/13
  • PHOTO JOST INTERNATIONAL
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JOST INTERNATIONAL (0.0 TCR gap)

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R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc. averages 10.4 TCR (192% of the Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc. TCR series: 2018=7.2 · 2019=13.6 · BLS 5.4

Where R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc. falls in its industry

772 Rims, automotive, truck, and b establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 13 Rims, automotive, truck, and b employers in Iowa.

R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc.
R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

R.A. Wheel and Sons, Inc. has fewer employees than the Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2019 13.6 0.0 4 1 0
2018 7.2 0.0 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · IA · St. Ansgar

772 Rims, automotive, truck, and bus wheel, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in St. 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 JOST INTERNATIONAL 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIPLEY INDUSTRIES, INC./IUKA 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Secor Ltd., DBA AWE Tuning 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Topy America - Frankfort 10.6 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 Grain Millers Inc. 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wold Rim and Wheel 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Ansgar Mill 31 FTE
NAT-TCR 039 ABC Supply Co., Inc 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Youngstown Bakery 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Sandy Recc Operations Center 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside Health and Rehabiliation Center 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE George's Cassville Hatchery 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE George's Edinburg Live Haul 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : SVC-Carolina District : SVC-CharlestonSC-USA 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE TAM 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: 2019, 2018. 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.