423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

Avoca

Avoca, IA · ~30 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avoca runs at 190% 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.

Avoca: 4.2 TCR = 190% of 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avoca safety composite

Avoca scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.4

2016→2024

Avoca injury rate improved

Avoca's TCR fell 12.4 from 12.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.4 · 2017=2.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 190% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/70
  • PHOTO TNT Equipment Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TNT Equipment Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Avoca in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avoca averages 4.2 TCR (190% 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

Avoca TCR series: 2016=12.4 · 2017=2.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Avoca falls in its industry

700 423820 Farm and Garden Machine establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #35 safest of 70 423820 Farm and Garden Machine employers in Iowa.

Avoca (30 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Avoca
Avoca (30 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Avoca 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 7.8 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.4 7.8 4 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2016 12.4 9.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Avoca

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 · 6 employers in Avoca, 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 TNT Equipment Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunSouth Samson 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardner Inc - MA 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Three Rivers 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wing America Travel Centre 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Omaha 136 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avoca Specialty Care 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avoca Service Center 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Crystal River Office 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AutoGate Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Carolina Heating Services,Inc. of Greenville 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR TNT Equipment Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oden Hardy Construction, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nimsgern Steel Corp. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cornerstone Environmental Contractors, Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Heights VA 30 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, 2017, 2016. 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.