General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken

Carroll, IA · ~498 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken runs at 445% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken: 9.8 TCR = 445% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken safety composite

Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.0

2017→2021

Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken injury rate improved

Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken's TCR fell 8.0 from 14.2 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=14.2 · 2018=11.2 · 2019=11.0 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Carroll, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 445% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #13/17
  • PHOTO HT Hackney-Paducah
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 182 inj
  • SIZE ~498 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HT Hackney-Paducah (0.0 TCR gap)

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Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken averages 9.8 TCR (445% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken TCR series: 2017=14.2 · 2018=11.2 · 2019=11 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=6.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 17 General-line groceries merchan employers in Iowa.

Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken (498 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken
Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken (498 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken has more employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2021 6.2 4.9 24 0 0
2020 6.3 5.0 24 0 0
2019 11.0 9.1 46 0 0
2018 11.2 9.7 52 0 0
2017 14.2 9.8 36 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · IA · Carroll

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 42 employers in Carroll, 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 HT Hackney-Paducah 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Restaurant Depot 573 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Foods Raleigh Division 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 311 Colorado Systems 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Peterson Contractors Inc 499 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nestle Purina Clinton IA 496 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waverly Store 496 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maharishi International University (MIU) 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR Core-Mark Iowa 732 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pella Corporation - Carroll Operations 653 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pella Corporation Carroll Site 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1787 215 FTE
NAT-TCR Hathorne Hill 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Greater Greenville Sanitation 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Checkers Justrite Safety Group- Titusville 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlene Manor Extended Care 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Renown South Meadows Medical Center 400 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beechwood Homes 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berry Brothers General Contractors, Inc. 498 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tran-Global Solutions 498 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.