Insecticides manufacturing · Iowa

A to Z Drying, Inc.

Osage, IA · ~126 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A to Z Drying, Inc. runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Insecticides manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

A to Z Drying, Inc.: 5.8 TCR = 176% of Insecticides manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A to Z Drying, Inc. safety composite

A to Z Drying, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

−3.4

2017→2024

A to Z Drying, Inc. injury rate improved

A to Z Drying, Inc.'s TCR fell 3.4 from 7.8 in 2017 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.8 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=4.3 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325320 · Osage, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Garden
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garden (0.0 TCR gap)

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A to Z Drying, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A to Z Drying, Inc. averages 5.8 TCR (176% of the Insecticides manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

A to Z Drying, Inc. TCR series: 2017=7.8 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=4.3 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where A to Z Drying, Inc. falls in its industry

145 Insecticides manufacturing establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Insecticides manufacturing employers in Iowa.

A to Z Drying, Inc. (126 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate A to Z Drying, Inc.
A to Z Drying, Inc. (126 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

A to Z Drying, Inc. has more employees than the Insecticides manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2024 4.4 0.7 6 0 0
2023 4.3 0.7 4 2 0
2022 5.9 4.4 7 1 0
2020 4.3 2.9 5 1 0
2019 8.9 7.4 12 0 0
2018 5.2 2.2 7 0 0
2017 7.8 5.4 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325320 · IA · Osage

145 Insecticides manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 11 employers in Osage, 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 Garden 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1099 Drexel Road Tunica, MS 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR IBC Manufacturing 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3rd Street Plant 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northwest Iowa Pork 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wafer 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Hills Village 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRV 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mitchell County Regional Health Center 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osage 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mitchell County 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valent Biosciences Osage 109 FTE
NAT-TCR Famoso 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MLC-DEV 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR A-G Sod Farms, Inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Beta Steel 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0025 Encinitas 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0021 San Diego 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Annandale Elementary School 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #1611 126 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.