Bricks, clay refractory, manufacturing · Iowa

United Brick & Tile

Adel, IA · ~105 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

United Brick & Tile runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bricks, clay refractory, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

United Brick & Tile: 7.4 TCR = 224% of Bricks, clay refractory, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Brick & Tile safety composite

United Brick & Tile scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

United Brick & Tile: 7.3 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2019

United Brick & Tile's TCR rose 1.0 from 7.3 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327120 · Adel, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 224% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO CCPI Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~105 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CCPI Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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United Brick & Tile in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows United Brick & Tile averages 7.4 TCR (224% of the Bricks, clay refractory, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

United Brick & Tile TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=8.3 · BLS 3.3

Where United Brick & Tile falls in its industry

307 Bricks, clay refractory, manuf establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

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 5 Bricks, clay refractory, manuf employers in Iowa.

United Brick & Tile (105 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate United Brick & Tile
United Brick & Tile (105 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 3.7

United Brick & Tile has more employees than the Bricks, clay refractory, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 8.3 6.5 8 1 0
2018 6.5 2.8 7 0 0
2016 7.3 5.5 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327120 · IA · Adel

307 Bricks, clay refractory, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 12 employers in Adel, 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 CCPI Inc 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Manufacturing Center 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kansas Brick & Tile 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Universal Refractories, Inc Wampum Campus 7.3 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 Dallas County, Iowa 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dallas County 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 124 ADEL 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adel Plant 73 FTE
NAT-TCR North Shore Health and Rehab 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 50 West Gude Drive 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0045 8403 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Diveriscare of Hayville 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE NAUR Pecos Office 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairlawn OPCO, LLC 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prop Logistics LLC 105 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Whitehall Houston 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: 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.