Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Horizon Equipment Avoca

Name: Horizon Equipment Avoca Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Avoca, IA · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.4
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Horizon Equipment Avoca runs at 108% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Horizon Equipment Avoca: 2.4 TCR = 108% of Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Horizon Equipment Avoca safety composite

Horizon Equipment Avoca scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−4.8

2018→2019

Horizon Equipment Avoca injury rate improved

Horizon Equipment Avoca's TCR fell 4.8 from 4.8 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.8 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Avoca, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 108% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #10/70
PHOTO Avondale
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avondale (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.4
Avondale

2.4
Nephi

2.4
Carrico Implem

2.4
FEI, Inc.

2.4

What this shows Horizon Equipment Avoca averages 2.4 TCR (108% of the Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Horizon Equipment Avoca TCR series: 2018=4.8 · 2019=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Horizon Equipment Avoca falls in its industry

700 Farm machinery and equipment m establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 70 Farm machinery and equipment m employers in Iowa.

Horizon Equipment Avoca (18 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Horizon Equipment Avoca has fewer employees than the Farm machinery and equipment merchant wh 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
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2018	4.8	0.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Avoca

700 Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 6 employers in Avoca, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Avondale	AVONDALE, CA	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Nephi	NEPHI, UT	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Carrico Implement Company, Inc. Ellsworth	ELLSWORTH, KS	2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FEI, Inc.	VALLEY CITY, ND	2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Hatteras	AUDUBON	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Southwest Pork	HARLAN	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DuPont Pioneer Orange City OCY1	ORANGE CITY	18 FTE
STATE-SIZE	River City Stone	DUBUQUE	18 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Wing America Travel Centre	Avoca	172 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Omaha 136	Avoca	61 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Avoca Specialty Care	Avoca	43 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Avoca	Avoca	30 FTE
NAT-TCR	Berwick Offray LLC - Bow Plant - Berwick, PA	Berwick, PA	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Solar Turbines Inc. DENY Office	Upper Saddle River, NJ	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Visiting Nurses Home Care	Menands, NY	2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	City of Lockport Police Department	Lockport, IL	2.4 TCR

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: 2019, 2018. 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.