423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

Audubon

Audubon, IA · ~29 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Audubon runs at 159% 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.

Audubon: 3.5 TCR = 159% of 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Audubon safety composite

Audubon scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Audubon: 0.0 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Audubon's TCR rose 4.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Audubon, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 159% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #27/70
  • PHOTO 14 - Fairmount City
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 14 - Fairmount City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Audubon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Audubon averages 3.5 TCR (159% 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

Audubon TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Audubon falls in its industry

700 423820 Farm and Garden Machine establishments

Safer than 59% 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 #27 safest of 70 423820 Farm and Garden Machine employers in Iowa.

Audubon (29 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Audubon
Audubon (29 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Audubon has fewer 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 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.8 0.0 2 0 0
2020 4.6 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Audubon

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 · 13 employers in Audubon, 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 14 - Fairmount City 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meade Tractor - Georgetown 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leon 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 06-Edinboro 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE FDML Forest City 0016 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dogwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery Valley Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Audubon County Memorial Hospital 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Audubon County Memorial Hospital & Clinics 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMVC 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Friendship home 59 FTE
NAT-TCR Strategic Electric Group, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rocky Mount 07 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pratt (Classic Container), Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brooks Utility Products 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Winsupply Indianapolis IN Co. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Homewood Suites Columbus Hilliard 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cheyenne Office 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hi-De Liners 29 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, 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.