Mortars, clay refractory, manufacturing · Iowa

Sioux City Brick & Tile

Sergeant Bluff, IA · ~71 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sioux City Brick & Tile runs at 59% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mortars, clay refractory, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Sioux City Brick & Tile: 1.9 TCR = 59% of Mortars, clay refractory, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sioux City Brick & Tile safety composite

Sioux City Brick & Tile scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

−3.8

2016→2019

Sioux City Brick & Tile injury rate improved

Sioux City Brick & Tile's TCR fell 3.8 from 3.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 3.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.8 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Sergeant Bluff, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 59% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Birmingham Hot Metal…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Birmingham Hot Metal Coatings (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sioux City Brick & Tile in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sioux City Brick & Tile averages 1.9 TCR (59% of the Mortars, clay refractory, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sioux City Brick & Tile TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Sioux City Brick & Tile falls in its industry

307 Mortars, clay refractory, manu establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

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 5 Mortars, clay refractory, manu employers in Iowa.

Sioux City Brick & Tile (71 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sioux City Brick & Tile
Sioux City Brick & Tile (71 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Sioux City Brick & Tile has more employees than the Mortars, clay refractory, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2017 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2016 3.8 2.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · IA · Sergeant Bluff

307 Mortars, clay refractory, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 17 employers in Sergeant Bluff, 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 Birmingham Hot Metal Coatings 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus Brick Phenix City 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iberia plant 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgan Advanced Materials Certech Inc 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maquoketa Valley Electric Cooperative 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peters Construction Corporation 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE T & K Roofing & Sheet Metal Company Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Mechanical Corp 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Port Neal 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR GELITA USA Sioux City 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sioux City Neal North 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 014 SERGEANT BLUFF 87 FTE
NAT-TCR KDC-Columbus 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sales - Flagstaff 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers # 131 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lott Oil Co.Inc.(LOC6) 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Emterra Environmental USA -Flint 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cornerstone Village South - Pine Oaks 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard World Trade Center 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMB155 San Francisco 71 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: 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.