Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain · Iowa

CFE Hawarden

Hawarden, IA · ~27 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CFE Hawarden runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain workplace, earning a grade D.

CFE Hawarden: 3.9 TCR = 178% of Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CFE Hawarden safety composite

CFE Hawarden scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

CFE Hawarden: 3.1 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

CFE Hawarden's TCR rose 3.8 from 3.1 in 2018 to 6.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424510 · Hawarden, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 178% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #21/40
  • PHOTO Frontier Ag, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frontier Ag, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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CFE Hawarden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CFE Hawarden averages 3.9 TCR (178% of the Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain BLS benchmark).

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

CFE Hawarden TCR series: 2018=3.1 · 2019=3 · 2020=0.3 · 2021=6.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 2.2

Where CFE Hawarden falls in its industry

399 Grain elevators merchant whole establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 40 Grain elevators merchant whole employers in Iowa.

CFE Hawarden (27 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 10203040506070 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate CFE Hawarden
CFE Hawarden (27 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.2

CFE Hawarden has fewer employees than the Grain elevators merchant wholesalers gra median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 6.9 3.5 2 0 0
2023 7.3 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.9 6.9 2 0 0
2020 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424510 · IA · Hawarden

399 Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 5 employers in Hawarden, 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 Frontier Ag, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stuttgart Soy Terminal 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Readfield Grain/Liquid 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Cooperative 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2520-Storm Lake, IA (Monsanto Co.) 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wastewater Treatment Plant 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Construction Services, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Weitz Company - Mission Critical - Microsoft DSM 14 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hawarden Regional Healthcare 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coilcraft - Hawarden 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillcrest Health Care Services and Mica Hill Estates 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillcrest Health Care Services 68 FTE
NAT-TCR Douglasville, GA - 04 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Domino Amjet, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lutherville Office 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SAYRE 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE OR-Aurora 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sabel Steel Theodore 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sabel Steel Dothan 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scully Packing Company Scotts Valley 27 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.