Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Iowa

C & B Operations Storm Lake

Storm Lake, IA · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C & B Operations Storm Lake runs at 220% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

C & B Operations Storm Lake: 4.8 TCR = 220% of Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C & B Operations Storm Lake safety composite

C & B Operations Storm Lake scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

Rising injury rate

C & B Operations Storm Lake: 4.3 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

C & B Operations Storm Lake's TCR rose 1.0 from 4.3 in 2023 to 5.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Storm Lake, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 220% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #42/70
  • PHOTO Heartland Ag - Grand…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Heartland Ag - Grand Island (0.0 TCR gap)

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C & B Operations Storm Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C & B Operations Storm Lake averages 4.8 TCR (220% 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 Storm Lake TCR series: 2023=4.3 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 2.2

Where C & B Operations Storm Lake falls in its industry

700 Agricultural machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #42 safest of 70 Agricultural machinery and equ employers in Iowa.

C & B Operations Storm Lake (18 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Storm Lake
C & B Operations Storm Lake (18 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

C & B Operations Storm Lake has fewer employees than the Agricultural machinery and equipment mer 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 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.3 4.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Storm Lake

700 Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 31 employers in Storm Lake, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Heartland Ag - Grand Island 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alliance OH 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WTC - Greeley 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SYDENSTRICKER IMPLEMENT-DUTZOW 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatteras 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Pork 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Orange City OCY1 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE River City Stone 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Storm Lake Plant 2,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Storm Lake Turkey Plant 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buena Vista Regional Medical Center 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1526 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Sierra Trading Post, Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington Vintners 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohakr - Akron 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Capitol Coastal N Charleston 4.8 TCR

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.