Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Houghton Facility

Houghton, IA · ~65 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Houghton Facility runs at 255% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Houghton Facility: 5.6 TCR = 255% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houghton Facility safety composite

Houghton Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Houghton Facility: 9.2 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.25× in 2024

Houghton Facility's TCR rose 0.7 from 9.2 in 2016 to 10.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Houghton, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.6 · 255% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #93/154
  • PHOTO Advanced Turf Soluti…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Turf Solutions - Ingalls (0.0 TCR gap)

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Houghton Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Houghton Facility averages 5.6 TCR (255% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Houghton Facility TCR series: 2016=9.2 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=10 · BLS 2.2

Where Houghton Facility falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #93 safest of 154 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Iowa.

Houghton Facility (65 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Houghton Facility
Houghton Facility (65 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Houghton Facility has more employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers 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
2024 10.0 1.4 7 0 0
2023 4.3 2.9 3 0 0
2022 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2021 6.6 2.6 5 0 0
2020 2.6 0.0 2 0 0
2019 5.4 0.0 4 0 0
2018 6.8 0.0 5 0 0
2017 3.8 1.9 2 0 0
2016 9.2 1.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IA · Houghton

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Advanced Turf Solutions - Ingalls 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agriland FS - Underwood 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Spirit Lake 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Topsoils, Inc. 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE PDA Duane Arnold 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dubuque Operating Center 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forrest and Associate Inc 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids, IA/Quad Cities HVAC 65 FTE
NAT-TCR Powell's Books -- Industrial Warehouse 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GL Tri-Galley 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Algonquin 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lebanon Store 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE PN Warehouse 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7312 Kingspointe Pkwy 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey - Housing 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pat Williams Construction 65 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.

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

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