Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Iowa

SmithCo Mfg Inc.

Lemars, IA · ~105 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SmithCo Mfg Inc. runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

SmithCo Mfg Inc.: 9.1 TCR = 168% of Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SmithCo Mfg Inc. safety composite

SmithCo Mfg Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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 Inc.: 8.2 → 9.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2020

SmithCo Mfg Inc.'s TCR rose 1.7 from 8.2 in 2017 to 9.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Lemars, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 9.1 · 168% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #10/13
  • PHOTO Unicover Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unicover Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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SmithCo Mfg Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SmithCo Mfg Inc. averages 9.1 TCR (168% of the Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SmithCo Mfg Inc. TCR series: 2017=8.2 · 2020=9.9 · BLS 5.4

Where SmithCo Mfg Inc. falls in its industry

772 Hitches, trailer, automotive, establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 13 Hitches, trailer, automotive, employers in Iowa.

SmithCo Mfg Inc. (105 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SmithCo Mfg Inc.
SmithCo Mfg Inc. (105 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

SmithCo Mfg Inc. has fewer employees than the Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 9.9 4.5 11 0 0
2017 8.2 4.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · IA · Lemars

772 Hitches, trailer, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 6 employers in Lemars, 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 Unicover Inc 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Innovative Industries, Inc Antigo 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Machine & Saw Company 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR flex technologies 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dallas County Service Center 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE EPI Power, LLC. - Microsoft DSM 14 Project 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rasmussen Mechanical Services Council Bluffs 105 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mittera - Rock Communications Plant 1 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pro-Visions - Le Mars 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 719 LEMARS 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR LeMars Terminal 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR LeMars 32 FTE
NAT-TCR 2253-H4690 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1300 Connellsville Road 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CCI:CC008 - CC008-Anaheim, CA 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR General Beer-Northwest, Inc. 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Salco NC 2, Inc. dba Evergreen Living Center at Stagecoach 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant 21 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE ASC - Johnson Controls 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fox Hill Center 105 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: 2020, 2017. 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.