Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers · Iowa

VB Seals

Ames, IA · ~20 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VB Seals runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

VB Seals: 2.2 TCR = 100% of Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VB Seals safety composite

VB Seals scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

VB Seals held a steady TCR band

VB Seals's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Ames, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.2 · 100% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Morrisette Paper Com…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morrisette Paper Company - Corporate (0.0 TCR gap)

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VB Seals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VB Seals averages 2.2 TCR (100% of the Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

VB Seals TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 2.2

Where VB Seals falls in its industry

589 Industrial supplies (except di establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Industrial supplies (except di employers in Iowa.

VB Seals (20 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate VB Seals
VB Seals (20 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

VB Seals has fewer employees than the Industrial supplies (except disposable p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 5.6 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · IA · Ames

589 Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 Morrisette Paper Company - Corporate 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canton 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gallagher Fluid Seals ELM 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR EADS_EPSCO 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Skyline Pork, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE J-Six Farms Iowa 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos Jacksonville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newell Pig II 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR ITW Automotive Body & Fuel 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Falcon Operations Center 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ruan Transport Corporation T-024 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Whse 508 - 91st Ave. 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE PCS San Jose 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2018129 - Marriott Bethesda HQ 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE AmeriGas - Garner, NC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sioux Falls Aerostay 20 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, 2018, 2017. 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.