Industrial salts merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Cargill Buffalo Salt

Buffalo, IA · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Buffalo Salt runs at 213% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Industrial salts merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cargill Buffalo Salt: 4.7 TCR = 213% of Industrial salts merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Buffalo Salt safety composite

Cargill Buffalo Salt scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Cargill Buffalo Salt held a steady TCR band

Cargill Buffalo Salt's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=10.2 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Buffalo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 213% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO AGL Welding Supply C…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AGL Welding Supply Co., Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cargill Buffalo Salt in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Buffalo Salt averages 4.7 TCR (213% of the Industrial salts merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Buffalo Salt TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=10.2 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Cargill Buffalo Salt falls in its industry

766 Industrial salts merchant whol establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 11 Industrial salts merchant whol employers in Iowa.

Cargill Buffalo Salt (23 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cargill Buffalo Salt
Cargill Buffalo Salt (23 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Cargill Buffalo Salt has fewer employees than the Industrial salts merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 8.6 8.6 2 0 0
2022 10.2 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · IA · Buffalo

766 Industrial salts merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 AGL Welding Supply Co., Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest- LaGrange 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Facilities 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manassas Park Packaged Gas Store 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Manhattan Management 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Delafield Fluid Technologies Duarte 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ketchikan Transportation 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kls Stryker Tn Rdc 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kls Oatly Ut 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE DOT Marion 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE C I Select Warehouse 23 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.