Curtain wall, glass, installation · Iowa

Zephyr Aluminum Products

Dubuque, IA · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zephyr Aluminum Products runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Curtain wall, glass, installation workplace, earning a grade F.

Zephyr Aluminum Products: 5.7 TCR = 204% of Curtain wall, glass, installation BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zephyr Aluminum Products safety composite

Zephyr Aluminum Products scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Zephyr Aluminum Products: 7.8 → 14.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2023

Zephyr Aluminum Products's TCR rose 6.6 from 7.8 in 2018 to 14.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238150 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.7 · 204% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Curtainwall Speciali…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Curtainwall Specialists (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zephyr Aluminum Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zephyr Aluminum Products averages 5.7 TCR (204% of the Curtain wall, glass, installation BLS benchmark).

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

Zephyr Aluminum Products TCR series: 2018=7.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=14.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Zephyr Aluminum Products falls in its industry

531 Curtain wall, glass, installat establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Curtain wall, glass, installat employers in Iowa.

Zephyr Aluminum Products (30 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Zephyr Aluminum Products
Zephyr Aluminum Products (30 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Zephyr Aluminum Products has fewer employees than the Curtain wall, glass, installation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 14.3 8.6 5 0 0
2022 6.5 3.2 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238150 · IA · Dubuque

531 Curtain wall, glass, installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, 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 Curtainwall Specialists 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2041_3661 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BLG, Inc. dba Blackline Glazing 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sioux Falls Branch 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1649 LAND O' LAKES, FL 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenville ENC 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR National Plastics Color, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Wildwood Linen Service 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE TTI- Marshall, TX 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quail Run Estates 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wood Products 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Woods 30 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, 2021, 2020, 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.