Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Archer Coop Grain Company

Archer, IA · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Archer Coop Grain Company runs at 318% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Archer Coop Grain Company: 7.0 TCR = 318% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Archer Coop Grain Company safety composite

Archer Coop Grain Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

−0.9

2017→2019

Archer Coop Grain Company injury rate improved

Archer Coop Grain Company's TCR fell 0.9 from 8.9 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.9 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Archer, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 318% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #115/154
  • PHOTO Caledonia Farmers El…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Caledonia Farmers Elevator Company Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Archer Coop Grain Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Archer Coop Grain Company averages 7.0 TCR (318% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Archer Coop Grain Company TCR series: 2017=8.9 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=8 · BLS 2.2

Where Archer Coop Grain Company falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #115 safest of 154 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Iowa.

Archer Coop Grain Company (21 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Archer Coop Grain Company
Archer Coop Grain Company (21 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Archer Coop Grain Company has fewer employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2019 8.0 8.0 2 0 0
2018 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2017 8.9 8.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IA · Archer

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 3 employers in Archer, 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 Caledonia Farmers Elevator Company Inc 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office - 01 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bedford Farmers Co-op 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH32 Mendel 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Audubon Vet Clinic 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos South 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE K & B Ag Supply 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR D K Plastics 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dave Dekok Inc 38 FTE
NAT-TCR Everglades Harvesting & Hauling, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers # 105 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0021 4267 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0003-Atrium Health University City 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frattallone's Ace Hardware-Bloomington 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reddy Ice - Lumberton (430) 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Super Dollar Store #2843 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE OmniSource LLC - Defiance 21 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: 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.