Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

Fort Dodge, Ia

Fort Dodge, IA · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fort Dodge, Ia runs at 655% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Fort Dodge, Ia: 14.4 TCR = 655% of Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fort Dodge, Ia safety composite

Fort Dodge, Ia scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Fort Dodge, Ia: 6.1 → 22.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 22.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2017

Fort Dodge, Ia's TCR rose 16.6 from 6.1 in 2016 to 22.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Fort Dodge, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 655% of ind

  • DART 15.1 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO Fife Warehouse 06
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fife Warehouse 06 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Fort Dodge, Ia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fort Dodge, Ia averages 14.4 TCR (655% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Fort Dodge, Ia TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=22.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Fort Dodge, Ia falls in its industry

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 18 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in Iowa.

Fort Dodge, Ia (19 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Fort Dodge, Ia
Fort Dodge, Ia (19 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Fort Dodge, Ia has fewer employees than the Other Grocery and Related Products Merch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2017 22.7 15.1 3 0 0
2016 6.1 6.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · IA · Fort Dodge

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Products 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Fife Warehouse 06 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CA - Orange - 1300 W. Taft Ave - The American Bottling Company 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Good Food Inc. 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indy-George Branch 14.5 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 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 Myrtle Beach Center (Scmyr) 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kegel's Produce 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR IHS 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Val 25 14.4 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: 2017, 2016. 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.