Tomato farming, grown under cover · Iowa

Bushel Boy - Mason City

Mason City, IA · ~45 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bushel Boy - Mason City runs at 328% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tomato farming, grown under cover workplace, earning a grade F.

Bushel Boy - Mason City: 14.8 TCR = 328% of Tomato farming, grown under cover BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bushel Boy - Mason City safety composite

Bushel Boy - Mason City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Bushel Boy - Mason City: 10.9 → 13.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 18.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

Bushel Boy - Mason City's TCR rose 2.4 from 10.9 in 2021 to 13.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 18.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Mason City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.8 · 328% of ind

  • DART 10.0 DART
  • RANK P4
  • PHOTO Soli Organic Inc. - …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Soli Organic Inc. - Elkwood (0.2 TCR gap)

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Bushel Boy - Mason City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bushel Boy - Mason City averages 14.8 TCR (328% of the Tomato farming, grown under cover BLS benchmark).

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

Bushel Boy - Mason City TCR series: 2021=10.9 · 2022=16.7 · 2023=18.1 · 2024=13.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Bushel Boy - Mason City falls in its industry

251 Tomato farming, grown under co establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bushel Boy - Mason City (45 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bushel Boy - Mason City
Bushel Boy - Mason City (45 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Bushel Boy - Mason City has fewer employees than the Tomato farming, grown under cover median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 13.4 10.0 4 0 0
2023 18.1 9.0 6 0 0
2022 16.7 11.9 7 0 0
2021 10.9 10.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · IA · Mason City

251 Tomato farming, grown under cover employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 126 employers in Mason City, 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 Soli Organic Inc. - Elkwood 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 04564100-00W002 LOCAL BOUNTI CORPORATION-LOCAL BOUNTI CORPORATION 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fluresh Grand Rapids 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Backyard Farms LLC 15.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amana Farms, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Opal Foods Hampton 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Davenport Service Center 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centerville District 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center East Campus 1,592 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE 1,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center 1,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR CURRIES 683 FTE
NAT-TCR Orange Park FL 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kre-Bsl Husky Shrewsbury Operation LLC 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Furbish Company 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brooklyn Queens Nursing Home 14.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Huntington Beach Branch 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williams Lumber Branch 7000 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Model Dry Cleaners, Charleroi Plant 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zebulon 45 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. 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.