Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing · Iowa
Sioux Automation Center
Sioux Center, IA · ~49 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 17.7
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Sioux Automation Center runs at 535% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.
Sioux Automation Center: 17.7 TCR = 535% of Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Sioux Automation Center safety composite
Sioux Automation Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).
18/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 17.66 per 100 workers
Safer than 3% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 7.43 per 100 workers
Safer than 11% 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
Sioux Automation Center: 19.6 → 20.4 TCR
Peak year 2018 @ 22.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2020
Sioux Automation Center's TCR rose 0.9 from 19.6 in 2016 to 20.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 22.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 333111 · Sioux Center, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade F · TCR 17.7 · 535% of ind
- DART 7.4 DART
- RANK #62/65
- PHOTO Pickett Equipment
- BOOK 5y book
- INJ 42 inj
- SIZE ~49 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Pickett Equipment (0.1 TCR gap)
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Sioux Automation Center in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- Wiese Industri
Wiese Industries, Inc.
18 TCR
- King Kutter
King Kutter
17.8 TCR
- This site
Sioux Automation Center
17.7 TCR
- Pickett Equipm
Pickett Equipment
17.5 TCR
- Broekema Beltw
Broekema Beltway USA, Inc. - CA
17.4 TCR
What this shows Sioux Automation Center averages 17.7 TCR (535% of the Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).
Sioux Automation Center TCR series: 2016=19.6 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=22.8 · 2019=14.2 · 2020=20.4 · BLS 3.3
Where Sioux Automation Center falls in its industry
433 Cattle feeding and watering eq establishmentsSafer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.
Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 65 Cattle feeding and watering eq employers in Iowa.
Sioux Automation Center 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 20.4 | 7.4 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 14.2 | 6.1 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 22.8 | 6.2 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 11.3 | 9.1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 19.6 | 3.9 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
333111 · IA · Sioux Center
433 Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 32 employers in Sioux Center, 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 | Pickett Equipment | 17.5 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | King Kutter | 17.8 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Broekema Beltway USA, Inc. - CA | 17.4 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Wiese Industries, Inc. | 18.0 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | DAS Marshalltown, IA | 49 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) | 49 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Centrum Valley Farms West | 49 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | CIPCO - Cedar Rapids | 49 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Interstates/Harbor | 1,090 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Smithfield Sioux Center | 456 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Smithfield Foods - Sioux Center, IA | 454 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Smithfield Packaged Meats-LLC | 453 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Mercury Excelum, Inc. | 17.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | 6458-ZPLA | 17.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Uniontown Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center | 17.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Herriman #159 | 17.7 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Contact Cartage Inc. | 49 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Xanitos EVS at Phoenixville Hospital - Tower Health | 49 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Acme Laundry | 49 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | The Gregory Hotel | 49 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.