Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Burr Oak

Decorah, IA · ~21 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Burr Oak runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Burr Oak: 0.9 TCR = 40% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Burr Oak safety composite

Burr Oak scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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%).

Burr Oak held a steady TCR band

Burr Oak's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Decorah, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/154
  • PHOTO Oberlin KS
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oberlin KS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Burr Oak in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Burr Oak averages 0.9 TCR (40% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Burr Oak TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Burr Oak falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 94% 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 #12 safest of 154 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Iowa.

Burr Oak (21 employees, TCR 0.9) 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 Burr Oak
Burr Oak (21 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Burr Oak has fewer employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IA · Decorah

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 38 employers in Decorah, 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 Oberlin KS 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SiteOne Landscapes Supply #636 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilder 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gillis Bros. Inc. 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Audubon Vet Clinic 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos South 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE K & B Ag Supply 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luther College 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decorah Human Services 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Decorah Store 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR WinnMed 557 FTE
NAT-TCR Banner Engineering Corp 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1448 - Berlin 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Administration Building 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heartland Tires and Treads of Kansas City 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cape Cod 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern States Mebane Service 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE E&N Associates, LLC 21 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.