Electric power generation, wind · Iowa

ACE - Storm Lake

Alta, IA · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ACE - Storm Lake runs at 592% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Electric power generation, wind workplace, earning a grade F.

ACE - Storm Lake: 7.1 TCR = 592% of Electric power generation, wind BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ACE - Storm Lake safety composite

ACE - Storm Lake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

ACE - Storm Lake: 4.0 → 17.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 17.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.44× in 2018

ACE - Storm Lake's TCR rose 13.3 from 4.0 in 2016 to 17.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221115 · Alta, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 592% of ind

  • DART 17.3 DART
  • RANK P3
  • PHOTO Avangrid Renewables …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avangrid Renewables - El Cabo (0.0 TCR gap)

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ACE - Storm Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ACE - Storm Lake averages 7.1 TCR (592% of the Electric power generation, wind BLS benchmark).

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

ACE - Storm Lake TCR series: 2016=4 · 2017=0 · 2018=17.3 · BLS 1.2

Where ACE - Storm Lake falls in its industry

64 Electric power generation, win establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
ACE - Storm Lake (24 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate ACE - Storm Lake
ACE - Storm Lake (24 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 1.4

ACE - Storm Lake has fewer employees than the Electric power generation, wind median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 17.3 17.3 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.0 4.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221115 · IA · Alta

64 Electric power generation, wind employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 5 employers in Alta, 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 Avangrid Renewables - El Cabo 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Ridge Energy Center 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Camp Springs Energy Center 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terra-Gen Cameron Ridge/Pacific Crest/Ridgetop Energy 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Afton Warehouse 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwood Sow Unit 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belmond 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarion, IA 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Platinum Crush LLC 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR WEL-Life at Alta 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Welcov Assisted Living at Alta 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alta 24 FTE
NAT-TCR TX-01 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bernhard MCC L.L.C. MS 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - Montgomeryville 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JX Peterbilt - Madison 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rmax - Fernley 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orlando Block 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Child & Family Services - Lansing 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kansas City ARC Warehouse 24 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.

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