423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

Boone

Boone, IA · ~22 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Boone runs at 328% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Boone: 7.2 TCR = 328% of 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Boone safety composite

Boone scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−6.0

2016→2024

Boone injury rate improved

Boone's TCR fell 6.0 from 13.2 in 2016 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 20.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.2 · 2017=20.6 · 2018=14.3 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 328% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #54/70
  • PHOTO TNE - Grand Forks
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TNE - Grand Forks (0.0 TCR gap)

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Boone in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Boone averages 7.2 TCR (328% 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

Boone TCR series: 2016=13.2 · 2017=20.6 · 2018=14.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Boone falls in its industry

700 423820 Farm and Garden Machine establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #54 safest of 70 423820 Farm and Garden Machine employers in Iowa.

Boone (22 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Boone
Boone (22 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Boone has fewer employees than the 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equ median and a higher 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 7.2 3.6 2 0 0
2023 4.4 0.0 0 1 0
2022 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 14.3 0.0 1 1 0
2017 20.6 13.7 2 1 0
2016 13.2 13.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Boone

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 · 39 employers in Boone, 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 TNE - Grand Forks 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR H & R Agripower Union City, TN 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manning 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR H & R Agipower - Mayfield 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 3804 568 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boone County Hospital 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDS Global Boone 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1389 180 FTE
NAT-TCR The Oaks at Woodfield 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Andersons Inc. - Bliss 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Knapheide Equipment Company - N. 5th St Installation Center 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #92 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seneca - Zelienople 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seneca - Harmony 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roofs, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Downtown GCA 22 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.