Other Building Materials Dealers · Iowa

Elkader IA Yard

Elkader, IA · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elkader IA Yard runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Building Materials Dealers workplace, earning a grade D.

Elkader IA Yard: 6.0 TCR = 176% of Other Building Materials Dealers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elkader IA Yard safety composite

Elkader IA Yard scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2017→2019

Elkader IA Yard injury rate improved

Elkader IA Yard's TCR fell 1.6 from 8.3 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.3 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Elkader, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 176% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/19
  • PHOTO 201 SANTA FE DRIVE
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 201 SANTA FE DRIVE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elkader IA Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elkader IA Yard averages 6.0 TCR (176% of the Other Building Materials Dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Elkader IA Yard TCR series: 2017=8.3 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=6.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Elkader IA Yard falls in its industry

1,643 Other Building Materials Deale establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 19 Other Building Materials Deale employers in Iowa.

Elkader IA Yard (30 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Elkader IA Yard
Elkader IA Yard (30 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Elkader IA Yard has fewer employees than the Other Building Materials Dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2019 6.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 8.3 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · IA · Elkader

1,643 Other Building Materials Dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 7 employers in Elkader, 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 201 SANTA FE DRIVE 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hammond Lumber Company - Damariscotta 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magbee Contractors Supply Ball Ground 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walker Zanger, Inc. 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR C. J. Moyna & Sons, LLC 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mobile Track Solutions 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkader Care Center 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bodensteinter Implement Company - Elkader Location 39 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Camillus RHCF 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 66th Avenue 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 0008 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR IL.CHICA.123 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Colorado Springs WECO 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chemtrade Solutions LLC Shreveport 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 98 Service Center Rd 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buchanan Middle School 30 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.