Mining machinery and equipment (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers · Iowa

RUD Chain Inc

Hiawatha, IA · ~19 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RUD Chain Inc runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mining machinery and equipment (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

RUD Chain Inc: 1.7 TCR = 76% of Mining machinery and equipment (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RUD Chain Inc safety composite

RUD Chain Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

RUD Chain Inc held a steady TCR band

RUD Chain Inc's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Hiawatha, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 76% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Hobart
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hobart (0.0 TCR gap)

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RUD Chain Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RUD Chain Inc averages 1.7 TCR (76% of the Mining machinery and equipment (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

RUD Chain Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.2

Where RUD Chain Inc falls in its industry

533 Mining machinery and equipment establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Mining machinery and equipment employers in Iowa.

RUD Chain Inc (19 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate RUD Chain Inc
RUD Chain Inc (19 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

RUD Chain Inc has fewer employees than the Mining machinery and equipment (except p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.7 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · IA · Hiawatha

533 Mining machinery and equipment (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 54 employers in Hiawatha, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Hobart 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TEC 99 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ascendum Machinery - Charlotte 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jamestown Store 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH15 Soybean Growth Chamber Building 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power Cooperative 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE main 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR CCB Packaging 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR HAWKEYE AREA COMM ACTION PROGRAM, INC 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR CEC 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crystal Group Inc 240 FTE
NAT-TCR Hawkeye Electric 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR AAH HME Living Well Center AAH 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ArmstrongFlooring, Inc. Jackson MS 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR REN094 Alabama 1.7 TCR

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, 2017, 2016. 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.