Farm supply stores · Iowa

16 - Theisen's - Ames

Ames, IA · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

16 - Theisen's - Ames runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade D.

16 - Theisen's - Ames: 6.3 TCR = 185% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

16 - Theisen's - Ames safety composite

16 - Theisen's - Ames scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

16 - Theisen's - Ames: 5.8 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2018

16 - Theisen's - Ames's TCR rose 0.7 from 5.8 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 185% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #13/28
  • PHOTO Summerwinds Cupertino
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Summerwinds Cupertino (0.0 TCR gap)

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16 - Theisen's - Ames in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 16 - Theisen's - Ames averages 6.3 TCR (185% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

16 - Theisen's - Ames TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=6.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 16 - Theisen's - Ames falls in its industry

642 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 28 Farm supply stores employers in Iowa.

16 - Theisen's - Ames (70 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 16 - Theisen's - Ames
16 - Theisen's - Ames (70 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

16 - Theisen's - Ames has more employees than the Farm supply stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 6.5 4.3 3 0 0
2017 6.6 6.6 3 0 0
2016 5.8 3.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · IA · Ames

642 Farm supply stores 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 Summerwinds Cupertino 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 707 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Producers Cooperative Association-Agronomy Department 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 23 - Theisen's - Black River Falls 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Office 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE GCI Gladbrook 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkel Construction Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knutson Construction Midwest 70 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 Creative Business Interiors 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland Health Care Center - Allen Park 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 004 TRC Lion Square Lodge 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SCC at Westover HIlls Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lelm-Hct-Little Elm 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Longmg-Hct-Kilgore Mining 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buena Vida Nursing & Rehabilitation Center of Odessa 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brian Center Health & Retirement/Mooresville 70 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.