Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc.

Ellsworth, IA · ~68 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc.: 4.0 TCR = 183% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. safety composite

Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc.: 3.7 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2022

Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 3.7 in 2021 to 4.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #69/154
  • PHOTO BRADLEY CALDWELL INC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BRADLEY CALDWELL INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. averages 4.0 TCR (183% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. TCR series: 2021=3.7 · 2022=4.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #69 safest of 154 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Iowa.

Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. (68 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc.
Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. (68 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. has more employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers 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
2022 4.4 1.5 3 0 0
2021 3.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IA · Ellsworth

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Ellsworth, 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 BRADLEY CALDWELL INC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leaf River Ag Service 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birkey's Farm Store 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt. Pleasant 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kirkman Farms, LLP 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rathbun Regional Water Association 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeside Contractors LLC 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwestern Mechanical - IA 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR IA Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ellsworth 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR BVS Transportation LLC 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Relyco, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Don Chapin Company 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sullivan's Morrison Store 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2904-ASM-WV 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Construction 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moorestown 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE SH - Big Oak 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE J&J Foods #1 68 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: 2022, 2021. 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.