Machine shops · Iowa

Superior Machine, Inc.

Albia, IA · ~105 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Superior Machine, Inc. runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade C.

Superior Machine, Inc.: 3.6 TCR = 110% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Machine, Inc. safety composite

Superior Machine, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Superior Machine, Inc.: 2.4 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Superior Machine, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.9 from 2.4 in 2021 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Albia, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 110% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #8/30
  • PHOTO Morgan Bronze Produc…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morgan Bronze Products, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Superior Machine, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Machine, Inc. averages 3.6 TCR (110% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Superior Machine, Inc. TCR series: 2021=2.4 · 2022=5 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Superior Machine, Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 30 Machine shops employers in Iowa.

Superior Machine, Inc. (105 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Superior Machine, Inc.
Superior Machine, Inc. (105 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Superior Machine, Inc. has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 4.3 4.3 4 1 0
2023 2.7 2.7 3 0 0
2022 5.0 5.0 4 1 0
2021 2.4 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IA · Albia

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 12 employers in Albia, 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 Morgan Bronze Products, Inc 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR S&J Precision Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lesleh Precision Inc 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prototype Solutions Group, Inc. 3.6 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 Monroe County Hospital and Clinics 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR RELCO Locomotives, Inc. 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Albia - Main Store 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR AYIA02-AYMI-AYM - ALBIA 80 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 2174 - Okeechobee Blvd 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkway Manor 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Laurels of Middletown 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Winter Haven Health and Rehabilitation Center 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Camp Longhorn, Ltd 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bristol Village, Inc. 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenway Manor 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Minnesota 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.