Home Centers · Iowa

Ames Ia - 3356

Ames, IA · ~162 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ames Ia - 3356 runs at 255% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home Centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Ames Ia - 3356: 8.7 TCR = 255% of Home Centers BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ames Ia - 3356 safety composite

Ames Ia - 3356 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2019→2024

Ames Ia - 3356 injury rate improved

Ames Ia - 3356's TCR fell 2.9 from 11.7 in 2019 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=11.7 · 2020=11.4 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=8.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 255% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #40/54
  • PHOTO 2807-1116
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2807-1116 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ames Ia - 3356 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ames Ia - 3356 averages 8.7 TCR (255% of the Home Centers BLS benchmark).

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

Ames Ia - 3356 TCR series: 2019=11.7 · 2020=11.4 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Ames Ia - 3356 falls in its industry

6,309 Home Centers establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 54 Home Centers employers in Iowa.

Ames Ia - 3356 (162 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ames Ia - 3356
Ames Ia - 3356 (162 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Ames Ia - 3356 has more employees than the Home Centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 8.8 2.0 9 0 0
2023 4.7 1.9 5 0 0
2022 8.3 0.0 9 0 0
2021 7.1 2.7 8 0 0
2020 11.4 3.5 13 0 0
2019 11.7 1.0 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · IA · Ames

6,309 Home Centers 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 2807-1116 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-2432 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-1782 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-1558 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kline Electric 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHIVVERS MANUFACTURING INC 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gemini Decorah 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6979 162 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 Maryland 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Abbott Northwestern General Medicine Associates Edina 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmington Health Services 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Michelman Steel Enterprises. LLC 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cottage Grove Mn - 3114 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florence Ky - 3359 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lawrence Ks - 3328 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norfolk Ne - 3103 162 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. 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.