Truck trailer manufacturing · Iowa

SmithCo MFG

Le Mars, IA · ~110 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SmithCo MFG runs at 348% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck trailer manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

SmithCo MFG: 11.5 TCR = 348% of Truck trailer manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SmithCo MFG safety composite

SmithCo MFG scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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 MFG: 9.4 → 19.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 19.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2022

SmithCo MFG's TCR rose 9.9 from 9.4 in 2018 to 19.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.46× 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 11.5 · 348% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #22/24
  • PHOTO 118_15955
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 118_15955 (0.0 TCR gap)

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SmithCo MFG in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SmithCo MFG averages 11.5 TCR (348% of the Truck trailer manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SmithCo MFG TCR series: 2018=9.4 · 2019=8.2 · 2021=9 · 2022=19.4 · BLS 3.3

Where SmithCo MFG falls in its industry

474 Truck trailer manufacturing establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #22 safest of 24 Truck trailer manufacturing employers in Iowa.

SmithCo MFG (110 employees, TCR 11.5) 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 MFG
SmithCo MFG (110 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.6

SmithCo MFG has more employees than the Truck 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
2022 19.4 5.3 22 0 0
2021 9.0 5.4 10 0 0
2019 8.2 4.9 10 0 0
2018 9.4 3.1 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336212 · IA · Le Mars

474 Truck 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 118_15955 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stoughton Trailers LLC Plant 6 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dell Rapids Custom Trailers, Inc. 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interstate Group L.L.C. Conway Plant 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux City Neal South 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winnebago County 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE MARSHALLTOWN, IA 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE HARSCO METALS 110 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 Bakery Express of Central FL 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Friendship Villa & WEL-Home Health Miles City 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bladensburg Facility 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 357245-Roslyn Heights Po 11.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty Packaging - Omaha 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9215-RIC 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davis Construction, Inc. 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethel Bakery 110 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.