Employer · Iowa

Far 48

Ames, IA · ~19 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Far 48 runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Far 48: 6.2 TCR = 181% of industry BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Far 48 safety composite

Far 48 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−5.4

2016→2020

Far 48 injury rate improved

Far 48's TCR fell 5.4 from 5.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.4 · 2017=12.3 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 181% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #182/211
  • PHOTO 10009 Mill Valley
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 10009 Mill Valley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Far 48 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Far 48 averages 6.2 TCR (181% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Far 48 TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2017=12.3 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Far 48 falls in its industry

30,654 industry establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #182 safest of 211 industry employers in Iowa.

Far 48 (19 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Far 48
Far 48 (19 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Far 48 has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 13.1 6.5 2 0 0
2017 12.3 6.1 2 0 0
2016 5.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · IA · Ames

30,654 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 10009 Mill Valley 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 018-00704 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 703-00045 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 703-00271 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH15 Soybean Growth Chamber Building 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power Cooperative 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE main 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR Indianhead Plating Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1081-Home Cre of the Carolinas-Stn 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft. Myers Biotest Plasma Center 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR PAU:PA038 - PA038-Pauley Constr-Phoenix, A 6.2 TCR

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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.