Dump trailer manufacturing · Iowa

SmithCo, Inc.

Le Mars, IA · ~118 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SmithCo, Inc. runs at 307% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dump trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

SmithCo, Inc.: 10.1 TCR = 307% of Dump trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SmithCo, Inc. safety composite

SmithCo, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

SmithCo, Inc.: 9.9 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

SmithCo, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.4 from 9.9 in 2023 to 10.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336212 · Le Mars, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 307% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #21/24
  • PHOTO Jet Company, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jet Company, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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SmithCo, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SmithCo, Inc. averages 10.1 TCR (307% of the Dump trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SmithCo, Inc. TCR series: 2023=9.9 · 2024=10.3 · BLS 3.3

Where SmithCo, Inc. falls in its industry

474 Dump trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 24 Dump trailer manufacturing employers in Iowa.

SmithCo, Inc. (118 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SmithCo, Inc.
SmithCo, Inc. (118 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

SmithCo, Inc. has more employees than the Dump trailer manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 10.3 6.6 14 0 0
2023 9.9 3.0 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · IA · Le Mars

474 Dump trailer manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 43 employers in Le Mars, 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 Jet Company, Inc. 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glade Spring Dry Van Plant 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 118_165 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cramer and Associates 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry MUIA 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gregory Design and Manufacturing 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Ice Cream Plant 1,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center- Headquarter Employees 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Ice Cream Freezer 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Hofstra Boh 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleaver Electric Inc 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Waters of Fort Wayne 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Moorhead Mn - 3229 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE European Imports 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE P.W. Campbell Contracting Co 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altium Packaging - Turners Falls Plant 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martin'S Food Markets 6426 118 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.