Courier Services Except by Air · Iowa

Fort Dodge (Iaftd)

Fort Dodge, IA · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fort Dodge (Iaftd) runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade B.

Fort Dodge (Iaftd): 4.4 TCR = 68% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fort Dodge (Iaftd) safety composite

Fort Dodge (Iaftd) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
B 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−3.0

2017→2018

Fort Dodge (Iaftd) injury rate improved

Fort Dodge (Iaftd)'s TCR fell 3.0 from 5.9 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.9 · 2018=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Fort Dodge, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 4.4 · 68% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #14/82
  • PHOTO Washington Enterpris…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Washington Enterprises LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fort Dodge (Iaftd) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fort Dodge (Iaftd) averages 4.4 TCR (68% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Fort Dodge (Iaftd) TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2018=2.9 · BLS 6.5

Where Fort Dodge (Iaftd) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 82 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Iowa.

Fort Dodge (Iaftd) (54 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Fort Dodge (Iaftd)
Fort Dodge (Iaftd) (54 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Fort Dodge (Iaftd) has fewer employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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
2018 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2017 5.9 3.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · IA · Fort Dodge

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air 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 Washington Enterprises LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NCRAL - RALEIGH 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunshine Express Logistics, LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RDL Logistic Solutions LLC 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Graettinger 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Service Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Creek Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettendorf Service Center 54 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 Fairfield Inn and Suites Atlanta Vinings 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Quikrete - MKJ 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Entira Family Cliics - White Bear Lake - Bellaire 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR M & B Asphalt Co., Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville (Iljac) 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Danville (Kydan) 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sacramento (Cawsa) 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branson Center (Mohol) 54 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: 2018, 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.