Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain · Iowa

Farmers Union Cooperative

Ossian, IA · ~112 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Farmers Union Cooperative runs at 291% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain workplace, earning a grade F.

Farmers Union Cooperative: 6.4 TCR = 291% of Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Farmers Union Cooperative safety composite

Farmers Union Cooperative scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

F

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.7

2023→2024

Farmers Union Cooperative injury rate improved

Farmers Union Cooperative's TCR fell 3.7 from 8.3 in 2023 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.3 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424510 · Ossian, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 291% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #31/40
  • PHOTO Frontier Cooperative…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frontier Cooperative Yanka (0.0 TCR gap)

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Farmers Union Cooperative in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Farmers Union Cooperative averages 6.4 TCR (291% of the Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain BLS benchmark).

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

Farmers Union Cooperative TCR series: 2023=8.3 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Farmers Union Cooperative falls in its industry

399 Grain elevators merchant whole establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 40 Grain elevators merchant whole employers in Iowa.

Farmers Union Cooperative (112 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 050100150 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Farmers Union Cooperative
Farmers Union Cooperative (112 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Farmers Union Cooperative has more employees than the Grain elevators merchant wholesalers gra median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2024 4.5 4.5 4 0 0
2023 8.3 8.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424510 · IA · Ossian

399 Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Frontier Cooperative Yanka 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scoular Downs 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gavilon Grain - Fremont 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Castlewood Farmers Elevator 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf Urbandale IA 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&S Products Co. Inc. - North Plant 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0057 LOWE S OF BURLINGTON IA. 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE FAREWAY STORES, INC. 061 ANKENY 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reilly Construction Co. Inc. 183 FTE
NAT-TCR DyCast Specialties Corp 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mesa Verde Enterprises 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6519 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR US Foods Streator 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Joe Wheeler EMC 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Donnewald Distributing Company 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metal Solutions, Inc 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt Paper (IN), LLC 112 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.