General freight trucking, local · Iowa

HDS Scotts

Ft. Madison, IA · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

HDS Scotts runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade B.

HDS Scotts: 2.8 TCR = 63% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HDS Scotts safety composite

HDS Scotts scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

HDS Scotts held a steady TCR band

HDS Scotts's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Ft. Madison, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 63% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/34
  • PHOTO Paxco Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Paxco Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Iowa employers → · Look up another →

HDS Scotts in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HDS Scotts averages 2.8 TCR (63% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

HDS Scotts TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where HDS Scotts falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 34 General freight trucking, loca employers in Iowa.

HDS Scotts (22 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HDS Scotts
HDS Scotts (22 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

HDS Scotts has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 8.5 5.7 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IA · Ft. Madison

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 5 employers in Ft. Madison, 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 Paxco Inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FL_Orlando_450 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Trucking Corporation 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR D2330 2.8 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 Silgan Containers Ft Madison 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gregory Design and Manufacturing 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farm & Home Supply Ft. Madison 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Optimae life services - Ft. Madison 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Chip In Island Resort & Casino 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wichita 10415 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Emory Electric, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Monarch Healthcare Management, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gerretsen Building Supply 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE UTR Services 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE McGriff Tire Company 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE TownePlace Suites Milwaukee West Bend 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.