Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Grundy Center- Phelps

Grundy Center, IA · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grundy Center- Phelps runs at 317% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Grundy Center- Phelps: 7.0 TCR = 317% of Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grundy Center- Phelps safety composite

Grundy Center- Phelps scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−2.8

2016→2017

Grundy Center- Phelps injury rate improved

Grundy Center- Phelps's TCR fell 2.8 from 8.4 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.4 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.4 · 2017=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 317% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #52/70
  • PHOTO Missouri Valley
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Missouri Valley (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grundy Center- Phelps in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grundy Center- Phelps averages 7.0 TCR (317% of the Tractors, farm and garden, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Grundy Center- Phelps TCR series: 2016=8.4 · 2017=5.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Grundy Center- Phelps falls in its industry

700 Tractors, farm and garden, mer establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #52 safest of 70 Tractors, farm and garden, mer employers in Iowa.

Grundy Center- Phelps (32 employees, TCR 7.0) 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- Phelps
Grundy Center- Phelps (32 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Grundy Center- Phelps has more employees than the Tractors, farm and garden, merchant whol median and a higher 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
2017 5.6 0.0 2 0 0
2016 8.4 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Grundy Center

700 Tractors, farm and garden, 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 Missouri Valley 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koenig Equipment, Inc.- Greenville, OH 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crown Power & Equipment Co., LLC - Columbia 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Campbell Tractor & Implement - Homedale 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE GSC Agribusiness 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nursery Department- Fuss Office 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley North 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Washington 32 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 Batesville (Msbat) 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Minneapolis (Mnmin) 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MCO - Airport United Airlines Offices 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas Hospice 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Contour Construction 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spring hill Farm Dairy Inc 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rai Mx Ord 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0052 - Everett, Wa 32 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.

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

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