Postharvest Crop Activities · Iowa

4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.)

Urbandale, IA · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.) runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Postharvest Crop Activities workplace, earning a grade B.

4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.): 2.5 TCR = 55% of Postharvest Crop Activities BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.) safety composite

4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−4.9

2018→2019

4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.) injury rate improved

4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.)'s TCR fell 4.9 from 4.9 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.9 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Urbandale, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #33/44
  • PHOTO Columbine Vineyards
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Columbine Vineyards (0.0 TCR gap)

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4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.) averages 2.5 TCR (55% of the Postharvest Crop Activities BLS benchmark).

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

4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.) TCR series: 2018=4.9 · 2019=0 · BLS 4.5

Where 4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.) falls in its industry

666 Postharvest Crop Activities establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 44 Postharvest Crop Activities employers in Iowa.

4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.) (47 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.)
4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.) (47 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.) has fewer employees than the Postharvest Crop Activities median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.9 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · IA · Urbandale

666 Postharvest Crop Activities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 104 employers in Urbandale, 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 Columbine Vineyards 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Bean Packers, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ofi Peanut Shelling Co. Rochelle 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corteva Agriscience 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DeJong Greenhouse LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Des Moines Office 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldfield 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms South 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISG Urbandale 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Manufacturing Corporation 612 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mosaic Urbandale/Nevada 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR URBANDALE IA 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Southwire Huntersville Plant 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Ctm University Texas Medical B 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Omaha 4501 Abbott Dr 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Apache Junction APA 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elite Spice: Magellan 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jeffrey Place Healthcare Center 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisiana Extended Care Hospital of Natchitoches 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belt Street 47 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: 2019, 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.