Shipping crates, wood, manufacturing · Iowa

Ronan Industries, Inc.

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

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ronan Industries, Inc. runs at 327% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Shipping crates, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ronan Industries, Inc.: 10.8 TCR = 327% of Shipping crates, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ronan Industries, Inc. safety composite

Ronan Industries, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2023→2024

Ronan Industries, Inc. injury rate improved

Ronan Industries, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.9 from 13.7 in 2023 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=13.7 · 2024=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 327% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO J&J Pallet
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J&J Pallet (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ronan Industries, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ronan Industries, Inc. averages 10.8 TCR (327% of the Shipping crates, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ronan Industries, Inc. TCR series: 2023=13.7 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ronan Industries, Inc. falls in its industry

952 Shipping crates, wood, manufac establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 12 Shipping crates, wood, manufac employers in Iowa.

Ronan Industries, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ronan Industries, Inc.
Ronan Industries, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Ronan Industries, Inc. has fewer employees than the Shipping crates, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 7.8 3.9 4 0 0
2023 13.7 5.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · IA · Waterloo

952 Shipping crates, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 172 employers in Waterloo, 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 J&J Pallet 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pallet Express, Inc 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 544-NB-TX-NEW BOSTON 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millwood, Inc. North Haven 10.8 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 Black Hawk County Extension 4,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterloo Pork Plant 2,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint 2,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR JD Waterloo Tractor and Cab Assembly Operations 1,605 FTE
NAT-TCR Embassy Suites Valencia 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MarketOne Builders Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR National EMS 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Retreat at Canton 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Covington 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Entertainment Technology 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cashwa Distributing / Aberdeen 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cargill Animal Nutrition 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. 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.