Ammonia, fertilizer material, merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills

Hills, IA · ~195 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ammonia, fertilizer material, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills: 4.3 TCR = 195% of Ammonia, fertilizer material, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills safety composite

Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills: 4.7 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2021

Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills's TCR rose 2.5 from 4.7 in 2018 to 7.2 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Hills, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 195% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #74/154
  • PHOTO 73087
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~195 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 73087 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills averages 4.3 TCR (195% of the Ammonia, fertilizer material, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills TCR series: 2018=4.7 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=7.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills falls in its industry

1,202 Ammonia, fertilizer material, establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #74 safest of 154 Ammonia, fertilizer material, employers in Iowa.

Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills (195 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills
Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills (195 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Eldon C. Stutsman - Hills has more employees than the Ammonia, fertilizer material, merchant w median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 7.2 4.5 8 0 0
2020 1.9 0.6 2 1 0
2019 3.3 2.6 5 0 0
2018 4.7 2.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IA · Hills

1,202 Ammonia, fertilizer material, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 5 employers in Hills, 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 73087 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hollister CA 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newark 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MacroSource, LLC - Catoosa 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Algona ALG1 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Falls Utilities 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Branch 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nichols Aluminum Casting 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eldon C. Stutsman 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR ECS - Hills 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stutsman Transportation Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stevens Erosion Control 32 FTE
NAT-TCR FW Office 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilmer Terminal - NON DOT 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Salem-Keizer Sch-Dist 24j 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mark Center 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avera St. Benedict Health Center 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Scruggs Company 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roche Bros. Supermarkets - Mashpee 195 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saris 195 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. 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.