Guards, wire, made from purchased wire · Iowa

Wire Form Division of Iowa

Washington, IA · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wire Form Division of Iowa runs at 288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Guards, wire, made from purchased wire workplace, earning a grade F.

Wire Form Division of Iowa: 9.5 TCR = 288% of Guards, wire, made from purchased wire BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wire Form Division of Iowa safety composite

Wire Form Division of Iowa scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Wire Form Division of Iowa: 5.8 → 13.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2018

Wire Form Division of Iowa's TCR rose 7.2 from 5.8 in 2016 to 13.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332618 · Washington, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 288% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Market Street
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Market Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wire Form Division of Iowa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wire Form Division of Iowa averages 9.5 TCR (288% of the Guards, wire, made from purchased wire BLS benchmark).

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

Wire Form Division of Iowa TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=9.7 · 2018=13 · BLS 3.3

Where Wire Form Division of Iowa falls in its industry

270 Guards, wire, made from purcha establishments

Safer than 9% 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 4 Guards, wire, made from purcha employers in Iowa.

Wire Form Division of Iowa (53 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wire Form Division of Iowa
Wire Form Division of Iowa (53 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Wire Form Division of Iowa has fewer employees than the Guards, wire, made from purchased wire 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
2018 13.0 8.7 5 1 0
2017 9.7 5.8 5 0 0
2016 5.8 1.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332618 · IA · Washington

270 Guards, wire, made from purchased wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 27 employers in Washington, 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 Market Street 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverdale Mills Corporation 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6491_15044 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Noble Wire Products, Inc. d/b/a Madsen Wire Products 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Natural Beauty Growers, LLC - Boyden IA 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith Fertilizer & Grain Co 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Streb Construction Co., Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caliber Concrete LLC 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Washington County Hospital and Clinics 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1475 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1475 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Halcyon House 141 FTE
NAT-TCR Aurora Health and Rehabilitation Skilled Nursing and Long- Term Care 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Oh Neo140 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Delaware Distribution Center 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilmington DE 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ACCESS & Transportation 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diamond Care Center 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grace Living Center-Mangum 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Hydraulics 53 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.