Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis · Iowa

Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant

Kanawha, IA · ~80 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis workplace, earning a grade D.

Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant: 5.5 TCR = 166% of Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant safety composite

Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.18 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2016→2023

Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant injury rate improved

Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant's TCR fell 1.6 from 5.9 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.9 · 2018=8.5 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Kanawha, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #11/21
  • PHOTO OEM Systems, LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: OEM Systems, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant averages 5.5 TCR (166% 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 Kanawha Plant TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2018=8.5 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=4 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant falls in its industry

470 Heavy trucks assembling on pur establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #11 safest of 21 Heavy trucks assembling on pur employers in Iowa.

Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant (80 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Kanawha Plant
Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant (80 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant has fewer employees than the Heavy trucks assembling on purchased cha median and a higher 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 4.2 3.2 4 0 0
2022 5.9 1.2 5 0 0
2021 4.0 2.7 3 0 0
2020 4.5 3.0 3 0 0
2019 5.3 5.3 4 0 0
2018 8.5 4.8 7 0 0
2016 5.9 2.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · IA · Kanawha

470 Heavy trucks assembling on purchased chassis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 OEM Systems, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR TBB South Campus 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rugby Manufacturing 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Body Works 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Storm Lake Turkey Farms 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE DMDL 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Calacci Construction Company, Inc. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Synergy Contracting, LLC 80 FTE
NAT-TCR Casa Dorinda 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pitt Ohio - Toledo 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Yellow Medicine County 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Millwork Shop 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Salas Plumbing, Inc. 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE KPC Promise Hospital of Overland Park 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nowhere Commissary, LLC- Distribution Center 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pillar Induction Brookfield 80 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.