Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain · Iowa

Five Star Cooperative

New Hampton, IA · ~88 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Five Star Cooperative runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain workplace, earning a grade B.

Five Star Cooperative: 1.2 TCR = 54% of Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Five Star Cooperative safety composite

Five Star Cooperative scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

Five Star Cooperative held a steady TCR band

Five Star Cooperative's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.1 in 2023 to 1.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.1 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424510 · New Hampton, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.2 · 54% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #5/40
  • PHOTO Huron Elevator/Ferti…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Huron Elevator/Fertilizer (0.0 TCR gap)

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Five Star Cooperative in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Five Star Cooperative averages 1.2 TCR (54% 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

Five Star Cooperative TCR series: 2023=1.1 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Five Star Cooperative falls in its industry

399 Grain elevators merchant whole establishments

Safer than 86% 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 #5 safest of 40 Grain elevators merchant whole employers in Iowa.

Five Star Cooperative (88 employees, TCR 1.2) 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 020406080100 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Five Star Cooperative
Five Star Cooperative (88 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Five Star Cooperative has more employees than the Grain elevators merchant wholesalers gra median and a lower 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 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2023 1.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424510 · IA · New Hampton

399 Grain elevators merchant wholesalers grain employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 38 employers in New Hampton, 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 Huron Elevator/Fertilizer 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millsboro Grain Facility 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beech Grove Grain Elevator 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garrison Main Office 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc - Reinbeck SPSC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCarthy Improvement Company 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rasmussen Mechanical Services CB 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Letica-Iowa 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriMark Corporation 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deb El Iowa Operating LLC 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atek Metal Technologies 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hampton 132 FTE
NAT-TCR 33 Bond St LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreen Technologies Inc 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Frankfort Core Plant 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Occasions Group - TX - 0156-TXWA1 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pioneer House 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE ThedaCare Medical Center Wild Rose 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fibre Converters, INC 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel Figueroa 88 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.