Construction machinery manufacturing · Iowa

Vermeer Corporation - Pella

Pella, IA · ~3,187 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vermeer Corporation - Pella runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Vermeer Corporation - Pella: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Construction machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vermeer Corporation - Pella safety composite

Vermeer Corporation - Pella scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−0.7

2018→2024

Vermeer Corporation - Pella injury rate improved

Vermeer Corporation - Pella's TCR fell 0.7 from 5.8 in 2018 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.8 · 2023=8.1 · 2024=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333120 · Pella, IA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #12/25
  • PHOTO Central Mine Equipme…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 554 inj
  • SIZE ~3,187 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Mine Equipment Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vermeer Corporation - Pella in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vermeer Corporation - Pella averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Construction machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Vermeer Corporation - Pella TCR series: 2018=5.8 · 2023=8.1 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Vermeer Corporation - Pella falls in its industry

400 Construction machinery manufac establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 25 Construction machinery manufac employers in Iowa.

Vermeer Corporation - Pella (3,187 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Vermeer Corporation - Pella
Vermeer Corporation - Pella (3,187 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Vermeer Corporation - Pella has more employees than the Construction machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 5.1 3.0 159 6 0
2023 8.1 5.5 251 9 0
2018 5.8 2.1 144 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333120 · IA · Pella

400 Construction machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 24 employers in Pella, 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 Central Mine Equipment Company 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CNH Industrial-Wichita 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gill Rock Drill Company Inc 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jones Manufacturing Company 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2643-14030001-140301 3,252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Medical Center Hospital-MHS-IA/NE 2,985 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Luke's Methodist Hospital 2,949 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whirlpool 2,940 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pella Corporation 2,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PELLA CORPORATION - PELLA OPERATIONS 2,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pella Regional Health Center 828 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 751 195 FTE
NAT-TCR Loren Cook Company - Springfield 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR LHC, Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Quincy Office 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR GR 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Memorial Health University Medical Center 3,186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Maine Medical Center 3,190 FTE
NAT-SIZE Good Samaritan Hospital 3,191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleveland-Cliffs - Indiana Harbor 3,192 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, 2018. 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.