Soybean farming, field and seed production · Iowa

GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA

Ankeny, IA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Soybean farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade C.

GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA: 4.9 TCR = 108% of Soybean farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA safety composite

GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−0.6

2022→2023

GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA injury rate improved

GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA's TCR fell 0.6 from 5.2 in 2022 to 4.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.2 · 2023=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111110 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 108% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P47
  • PHOTO Illinois Crop Improv…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Illinois Crop Improvement Association, Inc. (0.3 TCR gap)

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GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA averages 4.9 TCR (108% of the Soybean farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA TCR series: 2022=5.2 · 2023=4.6 · BLS 4.5

Where GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA falls in its industry

17 Soybean farming, field and see establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA (22 employees, TCR 4.9) among 10 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 4.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 11 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 050100150200250300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate GDM Seeds, Inc - Gibson City, ILJack Bros., Inc.ViafieldGDM Seeds, IncPacific Tomato Growers, Ltd - Newport TN FarmAgri-Tech/GrainInsight FS - AntigoFischer SeedsInsight FS - JeffersonHuntsinger Farms, Inc.GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA
GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA (22 employees, TCR 4.9) among 10 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 4.9

GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA has fewer employees than the Soybean farming, field and seed producti median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2023 4.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 5.2 5.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111110 · IA · Ankeny

17 Soybean farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, 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 Illinois Crop Improvement Association, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agri-Tech/Grain 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GDM Seeds, Inc - Gibson City, IL 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huntsinger Farms, Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geode GTC 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR Cherokee Station-105 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 2592 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Super Stop & Shop Store 102810 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0569 - Commerce Ca Bus Ctr 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE McCoys Building Supply-Carlsbad 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sun Commodities 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menomonie Service Center-1P 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garfield Operations Center-932 22 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: 2023, 2022. 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.