Food warming equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing · Iowa

Refurb / Afton

Afton, IA · ~79 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Refurb / Afton runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food warming equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Refurb / Afton: 6.2 TCR = 186% of Food warming equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Refurb / Afton safety composite

Refurb / Afton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Refurb / Afton: 4.2 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2018

Refurb / Afton's TCR rose 2.5 from 4.2 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333318 · Afton, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 186% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO Pentair Residential …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pentair Residential Filtration LLC - Dover (0.1 TCR gap)

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Refurb / Afton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Refurb / Afton averages 6.2 TCR (186% of the Food warming equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Refurb / Afton TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=6.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Refurb / Afton falls in its industry

361 Food warming equipment, commer establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 Food warming equipment, commer employers in Iowa.

Refurb / Afton (79 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Refurb / Afton
Refurb / Afton (79 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Refurb / Afton has more employees than the Food warming equipment, commercial-type, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2018 6.8 5.4 5 0 0
2017 7.5 4.5 2 3 0
2016 4.2 2.8 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333318 · IA · Afton

361 Food warming equipment, commercial-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Afton, 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 Pentair Residential Filtration LLC - Dover 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EcoWater Systems - Iuka 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smith Engineering Inc 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR J.v Manufacturing 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stuart Egg Farm 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beal Derkenne Construction LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Erectors Inc. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABC Electrical Services LLC 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Afton 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Afton Warehouse 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Pheasant Ridge Nursing & Rehab 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Corpus Christi (GCR) 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Chico (Cachi) 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield TSPC 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE B-X Mystic LLC 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodmark ,LLC 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE JOM Somerset 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enterprise Products (West NGL) 79 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.