Feed premixes, animal, manufacturing · Iowa

Furst-McNess Company (Johnston)

Johnston, IA · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Feed premixes, animal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Furst-McNess Company (Johnston): 2.1 TCR = 53% of Feed premixes, animal, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) safety composite

Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) held a steady TCR band

Furst-McNess Company (Johnston)'s TCR held near 0.3 from 2.2 in 2023 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.2 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Johnston, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 53% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #13/62
  • PHOTO Kalmbach Feeds dba W…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling (0.0 TCR gap)

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Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) averages 2.1 TCR (53% of the Feed premixes, animal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) TCR series: 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.9

Where Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) falls in its industry

756 Feed premixes, animal, manufac establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 62 Feed premixes, animal, manufac employers in Iowa.

Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) (51 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Furst-McNess Company (Johnston)
Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) (51 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Furst-McNess Company (Johnston) has more employees than the Feed premixes, animal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2023 2.2 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Johnston

756 Feed premixes, animal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 76 employers in Johnston, 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 Kalmbach Feeds dba Ware Milling 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HUGOTON FM & DELIVERY 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seaford DE Feed Mill 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kalmbach Feeds, Inc. 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allendan Seed Company 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Truck Wash 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Marion Research MRN1 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRS OSI Gen Repair Svc Wind Plt 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Financial Johnston 1,069 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSC 639 FTE
CITY-NEAR ChildServe Center 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH60 Franklin 486 FTE
NAT-TCR Empire Plastics Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Norcross, GA 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Carter Lumber 462 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JWP Secondary School 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Polyfill 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waoka - Omak 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Okcli - Clinton 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ilhgk - Hodgkins 51 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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