Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing · Iowa

Ritchie Industries Inc.

Conrad, IA · ~67 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ritchie Industries Inc. runs at 451% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ritchie Industries Inc.: 14.9 TCR = 451% of Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ritchie Industries Inc. safety composite

Ritchie Industries Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Ritchie Industries Inc.: 12.3 → 19.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2024

Ritchie Industries Inc.'s TCR rose 7.6 from 12.3 in 2020 to 19.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Conrad, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.9 · 451% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #59/65
  • PHOTO Broekema Beltway USA…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Broekema Beltway USA, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ritchie Industries Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ritchie Industries Inc. averages 14.9 TCR (451% of the Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ritchie Industries Inc. TCR series: 2020=12.3 · 2021=14.5 · 2022=15.5 · 2023=12.3 · 2024=19.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Ritchie Industries Inc. falls in its industry

433 Cattle feeding and watering eq establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 65 Cattle feeding and watering eq employers in Iowa.

Ritchie Industries Inc. (67 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ritchie Industries Inc.
Ritchie Industries Inc. (67 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Ritchie Industries Inc. has fewer employees than the Cattle feeding and watering equipment ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2024 19.9 8.3 12 0 0
2023 12.3 6.2 6 2 0
2022 15.5 11.6 8 0 0
2021 14.5 12.9 9 0 0
2020 12.3 12.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IA · Conrad

433 Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 7 employers in Conrad, 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 Broekema Beltway USA, Inc. 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilkey Industries Inc. 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harriston Industries 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nikkel Iron Works Corp 15.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE International Poultry Breeders Hatcheries, Inc. 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dave Schmitt Construction Company 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hendrickson Transportation, LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Constructors Inc of the Quad Cities 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hometown Foods 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Green Products Company 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR CONRAD, IA 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conrad 40 FTE
NAT-TCR ICT Express 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pine Grove Senior Living 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Windsong at Eola Hills 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Asbury Park Nj (Ocean) 14.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fischer USA, Inc. 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olive Branch, Ms 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Estates at Greeley 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Spring Center for Skilled Care 67 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, 2021, 2020. 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.