Farm supply stores · Iowa

6 - Theisen's - Tipton

Tipton, IA · ~18 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

6 - Theisen's - Tipton runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade F.

6 - Theisen's - Tipton: 8.5 TCR = 251% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

6 - Theisen's - Tipton safety composite

6 - Theisen's - Tipton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

6 - Theisen's - Tipton: 8.1 → 17.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.05× in 2018

6 - Theisen's - Tipton's TCR rose 9.3 from 8.1 in 2016 to 17.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 251% of ind

  • DART 17.4 DART
  • RANK #19/28
  • PHOTO Stockton Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stockton Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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6 - Theisen's - Tipton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 6 - Theisen's - Tipton averages 8.5 TCR (251% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

6 - Theisen's - Tipton TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2017=0 · 2018=17.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 6 - Theisen's - Tipton falls in its industry

642 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #19 safest of 28 Farm supply stores employers in Iowa.

6 - Theisen's - Tipton (18 employees, TCR 8.5) 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 6 - Theisen's - Tipton
6 - Theisen's - Tipton (18 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

6 - Theisen's - Tipton has fewer 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 17.4 17.4 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.1 8.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · IA · Tipton

642 Farm supply stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 15 employers in Tipton, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Stockton Plant 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bachman's Lakeville 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 761 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 14 - Theisen's - Cedar Rapids SW 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatteras 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Pork 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Orange City OCY1 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE River City Stone 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedar County 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDS Global Tipton 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 841 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR 841 70 FTE
NAT-TCR Irvtrk-Hct-Irving Truck 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MXG 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Futurex Industries - Coop 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pagosa - Resort 8.5 TCR

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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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