Grain grinding, custom, for animal feed · Iowa

GSC Ag

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

F
Failing Safety Record
14.9
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GSC Ag runs at 383% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grain grinding, custom, for animal feed workplace, earning a grade F.

GSC Ag: 14.9 TCR = 383% of Grain grinding, custom, for animal feed BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GSC Ag safety composite

GSC Ag scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−16.1

2017→2018

GSC Ag injury rate improved

GSC Ag's TCR fell 16.1 from 23.0 in 2017 to 6.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 23.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=23.0 · 2018=6.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Carroll, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.9 · 383% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #61/62
  • PHOTO Kent Nutrition Group…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo (0.0 TCR gap)

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GSC Ag in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GSC Ag averages 14.9 TCR (383% of the Grain grinding, custom, for animal feed BLS benchmark).

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

GSC Ag TCR series: 2017=23 · 2018=6.9 · BLS 3.9

Where GSC Ag falls in its industry

756 Grain grinding, custom, for an establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #61 safest of 62 Grain grinding, custom, for an employers in Iowa.

GSC Ag (22 employees, TCR 14.9) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate GSC Ag
GSC Ag (22 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

GSC Ag has fewer employees than the Grain grinding, custom, for animal feed median and a higher 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
2018 6.9 3.4 2 0 0
2017 23.0 19.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Carroll

756 Grain grinding, custom, for animal feed employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 42 employers in Carroll, 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 Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm Service Elevator 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renaissance Logistics - Drivers 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&L B&B/Double J Mill-Mountain Home 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Core-Mark Iowa 732 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pella Corporation - Carroll Operations 653 FTE
CITY-NEAR Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken 498 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pella Corporation Carroll Site 485 FTE
NAT-TCR Arlington (Txarl) 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0016 3204 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR White Sulphur Springs Center 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Center MD 14.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty Safe 9g Products Inc Division 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Imaging and Sleep Center 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE LifeSkills Industries-Allen County 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blank Welding / Blank River Services, Inc. 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: 2018, 2017. 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.