423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

Ames

Ames, IA · ~391 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ames runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Ames: 2.9 TCR = 131% of 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ames safety composite

Ames scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Ames: 2.9 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.92× in 2024

Ames's TCR rose 0.8 from 2.9 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.9 · 131% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #17/70
  • PHOTO Bodensteiner Impleme…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 86 inj
  • SIZE ~391 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bodensteiner Implement Company New Hampton Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ames in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ames averages 2.9 TCR (131% of the 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Ames TCR series: 2016=2.9 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Ames falls in its industry

700 423820 Farm and Garden Machine establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 70 423820 Farm and Garden Machine employers in Iowa.

Ames (391 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ames
Ames (391 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Ames has more employees than the 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equ median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2024 3.7 2.6 12 2 0
2023 3.6 2.2 11 2 0
2022 3.9 1.8 11 4 0
2021 2.6 1.0 10 0 0
2020 2.8 1.1 10 0 0
2019 3.4 1.8 12 1 0
2018 1.9 0.2 4 4 0
2017 1.1 0.0 5 0 0
2016 2.9 1.2 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Ames

700 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers 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 Bodensteiner Implement Company New Hampton Location 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 01-Falconer 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Junction 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FarmChem Corp 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1496 391 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCB Packaging 391 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Power Products, Inc. 390 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5115 390 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 Genesee Construction Service, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR American & Efird Gastonia Plant 21 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanderson Farms Adel Feed Mill 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 047-BTN 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Joeris General Contractors, Ltd. 391 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golden Nugget Laughlin 391 FTE
NAT-SIZE 500 Entertainment 391 FTE
NAT-SIZE NSLIJ Research 391 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.