Water treatment equipment manufacturing · Iowa

WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office

Name: WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ames, IA · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Water treatment equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office: 1.0 TCR = 30% of Water treatment equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office safety composite

WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers
DART rate: F 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office: 0.0 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2023

WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office's TCR rose 2.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 2.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333318 · Ames, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 30% of ind

DART 2.0 DART
RANK #2/14
PHOTO Innovations Center
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Innovations Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office averages 1.0 TCR (30% of the Water treatment equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=2 · BLS 3.3

Where WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office falls in its industry

361 Water treatment equipment manu establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 14 Water treatment equipment manu employers in Iowa.

WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office (50 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7

WesTech Engineering, LLC - Ames Office has fewer employees than the Water treatment equipment manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2023	2.0	2.0	1	0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333318 · IA · Ames

361 Water treatment equipment manufacturing 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Innovations Center	GOLDEN VALLEY, MN	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Altus	ALTUS AFB, OK	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PBI - Danbury (CT06)	DANBURY, CT	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pacific Steamex Cleaning Systems, Inc.	MUSKEGON, MI	1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sioux Jerseys, LLP	SALIX	50 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SEABOARD FOODS LP IOWA ADMIN	AMES	50 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Brenneman Pork, LLLP	WASHINGTON	50 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Northeast Iowa Artificial Insemination Inc.	LAWLER	50 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ISU - University Wide	Ames	13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ISU - On Campus	Ames	12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital	Ames	1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mary Greeley Medical Center	Ames	1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR	GC01 Dawsonville, Gold Creek Processing, LLC.	Dawsonville, GA	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.	Romulus, MI	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Boyd County Judicial Center	Catlettsburg, KY	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	St Louis	Chesterfield, MO	1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ORS Nasco/ Muskogee	Muskogee, OK	50 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kmi North Branch	North Branch, MI	50 FTE
NAT-SIZE	410 - East Carolina	Greenville, NC	50 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hansen's IGA Sparta	Sparta, WI	50 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.