Refrigerated products trucking, long-distance · Iowa

Fort Dodge Terminal

Fort Dodge, IA · ~539 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fort Dodge Terminal runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Refrigerated products trucking, long-distance workplace, earning a grade B.

Fort Dodge Terminal: 3.4 TCR = 76% of Refrigerated products trucking, long-distance BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fort Dodge Terminal safety composite

Fort Dodge Terminal scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−2.4

2016→2017

Fort Dodge Terminal injury rate improved

Fort Dodge Terminal's TCR fell 2.4 from 4.6 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.6 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.6 · 2017=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484230 · Fort Dodge, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.4 · 76% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO Charles Lawson 7300…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~539 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Charles Lawson 73005 Port Barre (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fort Dodge Terminal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fort Dodge Terminal averages 3.4 TCR (76% of the Refrigerated products trucking, long-distance BLS benchmark).

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

Fort Dodge Terminal TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=2.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Fort Dodge Terminal falls in its industry

1,026 Refrigerated products trucking establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #10 safest of 15 Refrigerated products trucking employers in Iowa.

Fort Dodge Terminal (539 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fort Dodge Terminal
Fort Dodge Terminal (539 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Fort Dodge Terminal has more employees than the Refrigerated products trucking, long-dis 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
2017 2.2 1.7 17 0 0
2016 4.6 3.2 33 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484230 · IA · Fort Dodge

1,026 Refrigerated products trucking, long-distance 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 Charles Lawson 73005 Port Barre 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR T190 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SF Transport, LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NY - Baldwinsville 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3895 - Cedar Falls IA FDC 536 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ottumwa Bacon Swift Pork Company 543 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Deere Waterloo Foundry 546 FTE
STATE-SIZE Townline 532 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 Correctional Facility 452 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elanco Fort Dodge 434 FTE
NAT-TCR Dyersburg Nursing and Rehabilitation, Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Health - El Paso 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR USA San Antonio 9603 Saunders Rd 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Texhoma Truss LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Production 539 FTE
NAT-SIZE Los Angeles Airport Marriott 539 FTE
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 539 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oncor Electric Delivery Distribution Operations Western Region 539 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: 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.