Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis · Iowa

Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant

Garner, IA · ~395 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis workplace, earning a grade C.

Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant: 3.8 TCR = 115% of Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant safety composite

Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant: 4.3 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2023

Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant's TCR rose 0.7 from 4.3 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Garner, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 115% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #5/21
  • PHOTO Wabash Cleburne
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 102 inj
  • SIZE ~395 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wabash Cleburne (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant averages 3.8 TCR (115% of the Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis BLS benchmark).

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

Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=3.2 · 2023=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant falls in its industry

470 Heavy trucks assembling on pur establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 21 Heavy trucks assembling on pur employers in Iowa.

Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant (395 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant
Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant (395 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Stellar Industries Inc. Garner Plant has more employees than the Heavy trucks assembling on purchased cha median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2023 5.0 3.2 22 0 0
2022 3.2 1.7 13 0 0
2021 2.7 1.3 10 0 0
2020 3.6 0.9 12 0 0
2019 4.9 1.1 18 0 0
2018 2.9 1.9 12 0 0
2016 4.3 2.9 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · IA · Garner

470 Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 8 employers in Garner, 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 Wabash Cleburne 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Versalift Southeast - TN 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spencer Manufacturing, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utilimaster- Kansas City, MO 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE KATECHO, INC. 396 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dubuque Store 394 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2827 397 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crossroads Store 393 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa Mold Tooling 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Concord Care Center 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Garner Production 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Garner - Main Store 36 FTE
NAT-TCR Stephenville Dirt Cheap 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Neshoba Feed Mill (MLO) 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Oxford, CT #248 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR J. F. Fischer, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #13 395 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8800 Warn Industries 395 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlisle Plant 395 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Region : Shu 395 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.