Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Iowa

Techniplas-Ankeny

Ankeny, IA · ~136 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Techniplas-Ankeny runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Techniplas-Ankeny: 9.6 TCR = 292% of Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Techniplas-Ankeny safety composite

Techniplas-Ankeny scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Techniplas-Ankeny: 8.1 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2019

Techniplas-Ankeny's TCR rose 3.0 from 8.1 in 2016 to 11.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 292% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #45/63
  • PHOTO Group B
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Group B (0.0 TCR gap)

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Techniplas-Ankeny in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Techniplas-Ankeny averages 9.6 TCR (292% of the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Techniplas-Ankeny TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2019=11.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Techniplas-Ankeny falls in its industry

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #45 safest of 63 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib employers in Iowa.

Techniplas-Ankeny (136 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Techniplas-Ankeny
Techniplas-Ankeny (136 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Techniplas-Ankeny has more employees than the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, m 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
2019 11.1 8.5 14 3 0
2016 8.1 4.1 10 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · IA · Ankeny

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, 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 Group B 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fibertech, INC 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MACCOURT PRODUCTS INC 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sinclair and Rush Arnold South 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Estes Construction 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boomerang Corp. 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Gypsum Fort Dodge 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastic Professionals 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR Peak Home Care Inc dba Home Instead Senior Care 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amwaste LLC Birmingham 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Boehlke Bottled Gas Corp 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PathGroup 658 Grassmere 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plants 3 and 5 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Day By Day Hospice 35-2237665 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Smith - 600 Raleigh Street 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raytheon_Aberdeen Proving Ground_MD 136 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: 2019, 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.