423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

Grundy Center

Grundy Center, IA · ~25 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grundy Center runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Grundy Center: 3.2 TCR = 145% of 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grundy Center safety composite

Grundy Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−5.0

2016→2024

Grundy Center injury rate improved

Grundy Center's TCR fell 5.0 from 5.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.0 · 2017=5.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Grundy Center, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.2 · 145% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/70
  • PHOTO Ewing Irrigation Pro…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ewing Irrigation Products, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grundy Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grundy Center averages 3.2 TCR (145% of the 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Grundy Center TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=5 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Grundy Center falls in its industry

700 423820 Farm and Garden Machine establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 70 423820 Farm and Garden Machine employers in Iowa.

Grundy Center (25 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Grundy Center
Grundy Center (25 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Grundy Center has fewer employees than the 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equ median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2021 10.6 3.5 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2016 5.0 5.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Grundy Center

700 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 12 employers in Grundy Center, 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 Ewing Irrigation Products, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Athens TN 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR LeMars 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Administration Building 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE WCT-Crystal Lake 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oskaloosa Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consumers Energy 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richelieu Foods Grundy Center 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creekside 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR WATERLOO IA - 247 46 FTE
NAT-TCR UT Health Henderson 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Medical City Dallas 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenway Equipment Newport 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tampa Bay Fisheries Inc 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stamford Windustrial CO 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE D-Lux Screen Printing 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phinney Industrial Roofing Inc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hazel Park 25 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.