Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing · Iowa

UFP Technologies - Iowa

Clinton, IA · ~82 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UFP Technologies - Iowa runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

UFP Technologies - Iowa: 2.4 TCR = 73% of Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UFP Technologies - Iowa safety composite

UFP Technologies - Iowa scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−4.1

2019→2021

UFP Technologies - Iowa injury rate improved

UFP Technologies - Iowa's TCR fell 4.1 from 5.0 in 2019 to 0.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.0 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Clinton, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 73% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO SwimWays NC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SwimWays NC (0.0 TCR gap)

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UFP Technologies - Iowa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UFP Technologies - Iowa averages 2.4 TCR (73% of the Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

UFP Technologies - Iowa TCR series: 2019=5 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where UFP Technologies - Iowa falls in its industry

474 Foam plastics products (except establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Foam plastics products (except employers in Iowa.

UFP Technologies - Iowa (82 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 UFP Technologies - Iowa
UFP Technologies - Iowa (82 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

UFP Technologies - Iowa has more employees than the Foam plastics products (except polystren median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2021 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 5.0 5.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · IA · Clinton

474 Foam plastics products (except polystrene) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 78 employers in Clinton, 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 SwimWays NC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leggett & Platt Aurora 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Future Foam Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creative Foam 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eagle Grove 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Algona ALG1 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Head Office 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Des Moines 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clinton Corn Plant 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center North Campus 592 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-North Campus-MHS-IA/NE 513 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nestle Purina Clinton IA 496 FTE
NAT-TCR Williamsburg Houses 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1346 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR allnex USA Inc - Kalamazoo 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Terminal - NON DOT 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Valley GMC Fresno 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Off Lease Only LLC Military 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE NWDS 82 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.