Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

Fort Dodge

Fort Dodge, IA · ~47 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fort Dodge runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Fort Dodge: 3.4 TCR = 152% of Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fort Dodge safety composite

Fort Dodge scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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)
D 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−12.4

2016→2024

Fort Dodge injury rate improved

Fort Dodge's TCR fell 12.4 from 12.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.4 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=6.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424450 · Fort Dodge, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 152% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO DANDRIDGE PEC EmpW…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DANDRIDGE PEC EmpWorkCtrCd 30001623 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fort Dodge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fort Dodge averages 3.4 TCR (152% of the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Fort Dodge TCR series: 2016=12.4 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=6.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Fort Dodge falls in its industry

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 8 Confectionery Merchant Wholesa employers in Iowa.

Fort Dodge (47 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge (47 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Fort Dodge has fewer employees than the Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2022 6.4 3.2 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.9 0.0 0 1 0
2017 4.3 2.1 2 0 0
2016 12.4 2.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424450 · IA · Fort Dodge

773 Confectionery Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 75 employers in Fort Dodge, 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 DANDRIDGE PEC EmpWorkCtrCd 30001623 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR HERR FOODS INC. 75 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herr Foods Inc. 73 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HERR FOODS INC. 69 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE DeJong Greenhouse LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Des Moines Office 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldfield 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms South 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center 790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Point Trinity Regional Medical Center 648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Terminal 539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Correctional Facility 452 FTE
NAT-TCR Ardent Mills Sherman 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pro-Craft Construction 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 016 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Morrison Milling 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carlton High School 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rivers Metal Products, Inc 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tower Communications Expert, LLC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monterey Fuel Company, LLC 47 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, 2022, 2021, 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.