DAIRY DISTRIBUTION · Iowa

Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia

Le Mars, IA · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia runs at 233% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical DAIRY DISTRIBUTION workplace, earning a grade F.

Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia: 5.1 TCR = 233% of DAIRY DISTRIBUTION BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia safety composite

Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia: 2.5 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2024

Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia's TCR rose 2.0 from 2.5 in 2021 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Le Mars, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 233% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK P59
  • PHOTO DFA DISTRIBUTING WES…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - CITY OF INDUSTRY CA-NORTH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia averages 5.1 TCR (233% of the DAIRY DISTRIBUTION BLS benchmark).

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

Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia TCR series: 2021=2.5 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia falls in its industry

231 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia (33 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia
Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia (33 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Dfa Distributing North - Lemars Ia has fewer employees than the DAIRY DISTRIBUTION median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2023 5.4 2.7 2 0 0
2022 8.1 2.7 3 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · IA · Le Mars

231 DAIRY DISTRIBUTION employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 43 employers in Le Mars, 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 DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - CITY OF INDUSTRY CA-NORTH 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Side Jersey Dairy - Bismarck Distribution 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WHITMAN 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mayfield - Carrollton 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Marshalltown 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IA Hatchery & Logistics 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE East-Central Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keokuk Contractors LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Ice Cream Plant 1,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center- Headquarter Employees 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Ice Cream Freezer 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Dfa Distributing West - City of Industry Ca-North 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vanguard Builders, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DAT6 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Delta Air Lines - JFK 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dfa Distributing South - Knoxville Tn 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legacy Wendy's-121 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nexus-FACTS Family Healing 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City St. Albans 33 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.

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

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