Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Farmers Coop Society-Boyden

Boyden, IA · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Farmers Coop Society-Boyden runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Farmers Coop Society-Boyden: 2.3 TCR = 106% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Farmers Coop Society-Boyden safety composite

Farmers Coop Society-Boyden scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Farmers Coop Society-Boyden: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Farmers Coop Society-Boyden's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Boyden, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 106% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #36/154
  • PHOTO Peterson Farms Seed
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Peterson Farms Seed (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Iowa employers → · Look up another →

Farmers Coop Society-Boyden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Farmers Coop Society-Boyden averages 2.3 TCR (106% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Farmers Coop Society-Boyden TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=2.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Farmers Coop Society-Boyden falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #36 safest of 154 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Iowa.

Farmers Coop Society-Boyden (35 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Farmers Coop Society-Boyden
Farmers Coop Society-Boyden (35 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Farmers Coop Society-Boyden has more employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers median and a lower 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IA · Boyden

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Boyden, 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 Peterson Farms Seed 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers Union - Grygla 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm Service Cooperative Harlan Corporate Office 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klostermann 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE IA17-SEL-OSCEOLA HATCHERY' 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience - Algona Research - ALG2 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at ADM Cedar Rapids 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE On Track Construction, LLC 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dethmers Mfg Co 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR Natural Beauty Growers, LLC - Boyden IA 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boyden 34 FTE
NAT-TCR AES Main 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Interdesign, Inc 3 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR California Pacific Medical Center (274-HC-WC1) 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AC Hotel Gainesville Downtown 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gerald Nell Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Veneer & Slicing Company 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Desert Lumber - South 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE J&J Sheet Metal Works, LLC 35 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, 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.