Mail and Parcel Delivery · Iowa

AMES_1352959

Ames, IA · ~74 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AMES_1352959 runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade D.

AMES_1352959: 5.6 TCR = 125% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AMES_1352959 safety composite

AMES_1352959 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
C 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−3.0

2023→2024

AMES_1352959 injury rate improved

AMES_1352959's TCR fell 3.0 from 7.1 in 2023 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.1 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 125% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #37/157
  • PHOTO WT HARRIS_1388354
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WT HARRIS_1388354 (0.0 TCR gap)

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AMES_1352959 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AMES_1352959 averages 5.6 TCR (125% of the Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS benchmark).

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

AMES_1352959 TCR series: 2023=7.1 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 4.5

Where AMES_1352959 falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 157 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in Iowa.

AMES_1352959 (74 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate AMES_1352959
AMES_1352959 (74 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

AMES_1352959 has more employees than the Mail and Parcel Delivery median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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 4.1 4.1 3 0 0
2023 7.1 5.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · IA · Ames

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery 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 WT HARRIS_1388354 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FLAMINGO_1439166 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TALLAHASSEE_1384235 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR EAGLE RIVER_1361595 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Iowa Falls 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worley Field Services - ADM Clinton 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mittera - Creative Services 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Hartley Plant 74 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 Group M 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mansfield MA 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vignoble 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Griffin Beverage CO Saginaw 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aldevron Madison, LLC 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shapes Precision Manufacturing 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village on the Park Steeplechase 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palmer Lake Elementary School 74 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. 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.