Cattle merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon

Waukon, IA · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon runs at 622% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cattle merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon: 13.7 TCR = 622% of Cattle merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon safety composite

Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−9.2

2022→2024

Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon injury rate improved

Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon's TCR fell 9.2 from 9.2 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 31.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.2 · 2023=31.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424520 · Waukon, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.7 · 622% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P32
  • PHOTO Central Livestock - …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Livestock - Albany (0.8 TCR gap)

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Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon averages 13.7 TCR (622% of the Cattle merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon TCR series: 2022=9.2 · 2023=31.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon falls in its industry

44 Cattle merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon (34 employees, TCR 13.7) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 9.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 050100150200250 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon
Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon (34 employees, TCR 13.7) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 9.9

Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon has more employees than the Cattle merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 31.9 31.9 1 0 0
2022 9.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424520 · IA · Waukon

44 Cattle merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 19 employers in Waukon, 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 Central Livestock - Albany 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR UPI-Owenton 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blue Grass Stockyards of Lexington 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Producers, Inc. - Bucyrus 12.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE BP Land, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2511-Beaman, IA 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belle Plaine 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE KR Farm Labor Services, LLC 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Veterans Memorial Hospital 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northgate Care Center 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reel Core Inc. 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 062 WAUKON 66 FTE
NAT-TCR Superior Plastics Extrusion Co - CT 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilbert Funeral Services San Antonio 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Beechwood Health Care Center 13.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Somerset Court at University Place 13.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Astro Electroplating LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashland Farm LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carstens Industries 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caskey 34 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. 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.