Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Iowa

C & B Operations Spencer

Spencer, IA · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C & B Operations Spencer runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

C & B Operations Spencer: 3.6 TCR = 163% of Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C & B Operations Spencer safety composite

C & B Operations Spencer scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

C & B Operations Spencer: 2.9 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2024

C & B Operations Spencer's TCR rose 1.3 from 2.9 in 2023 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 163% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #29/70
  • PHOTO Ditch Witch of South…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ditch Witch of South Louisiana (0.0 TCR gap)

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C & B Operations Spencer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C & B Operations Spencer averages 3.6 TCR (163% of the Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

C & B Operations Spencer TCR series: 2023=2.9 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 2.2

Where C & B Operations Spencer falls in its industry

700 Agricultural machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 58% 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 #29 safest of 70 Agricultural machinery and equ employers in Iowa.

C & B Operations Spencer (25 employees, TCR 3.6) 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 C & B Operations Spencer
C & B Operations Spencer (25 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

C & B Operations Spencer has fewer employees than the Agricultural machinery and equipment mer 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 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2023 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Spencer

700 Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 44 employers in Spencer, 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 Ditch Witch of South Louisiana 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR H & R Agripower - Vergennes 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BTI Ness City 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunSouth Demopolis 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE WCT-Crystal Lake 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oskaloosa Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consumers Energy 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnold Motor Supply 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spencer Hospital 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spencer Municipal Hospital 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2714 221 FTE
NAT-TCR STR0228 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Phillips Mushroom Farms INC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen EWP 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Stangenes Industries, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kala House JR 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE DBA Hillview Senior Living 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rental Services - Fresno 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-Shaver Lake - Camp Edison 25 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. 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.