Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location

Elkader, IA · ~39 workers · 6 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

Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location: 4.0 TCR = 184% of Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location safety composite

Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location: 1.4 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location's TCR rose 1.5 from 1.4 in 2018 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 184% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #33/70
  • PHOTO Madrid
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Madrid (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location averages 4.0 TCR (184% of the Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location TCR series: 2018=1.4 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=3 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location falls in its industry

700 Farm machinery and equipment m establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #33 safest of 70 Farm machinery and equipment m employers in Iowa.

Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location (39 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location
Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location (39 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location has more employees than the Farm machinery and equipment merchant wh 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 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2022 8.1 5.4 3 0 0
2020 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.2 3.1 2 0 0
2018 1.4 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Elkader

700 Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 7 employers in Elkader, 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 Madrid 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HTI - SMITHVILLE 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tractor Central LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HTI - WEST PLAINS 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE GGDC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience: MRN1: Marion IA R&D 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Production 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Lake 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR C. J. Moyna & Sons, LLC 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mobile Track Solutions 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkader Care Center 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkader IA Yard 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Division 40 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Schertz Texas Plant 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowles Construction Company 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Advantage Tank Lines 20051 Louisville 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stuckey Construction 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Louisburg 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE MAK Metals Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Rockford 39 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.