Couriers and Express Delivery Services · Iowa

Iaott - Ottumwa

Ottumwa, IA · ~84 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
11.5
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iaott - Ottumwa runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Couriers and Express Delivery Services workplace, earning a grade D.

Iaott - Ottumwa: 11.5 TCR = 176% of Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iaott - Ottumwa safety composite

Iaott - Ottumwa 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 8.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−7.5

2019→2024

Iaott - Ottumwa injury rate improved

Iaott - Ottumwa's TCR fell 7.5 from 15.8 in 2019 to 8.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=15.8 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=15.0 · 2023=13.2 · 2024=8.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Ottumwa, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 11.5 · 176% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #56/82
  • PHOTO ARHOT - HOT SPRINGS
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ARHOT - HOT SPRINGS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iaott - Ottumwa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iaott - Ottumwa averages 11.5 TCR (176% of the Couriers and Express Delivery Services BLS benchmark).

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

Iaott - Ottumwa TCR series: 2019=15.8 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=15 · 2023=13.2 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 6.5

Where Iaott - Ottumwa falls in its industry

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 82 Couriers and Express Delivery employers in Iowa.

Iaott - Ottumwa (84 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Iaott - Ottumwa
Iaott - Ottumwa (84 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Iaott - Ottumwa has fewer employees than the Couriers and Express Delivery Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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 8.3 8.3 5 0 0
2023 13.2 9.9 6 2 0
2022 15.0 10.5 10 0 0
2021 11.2 9.6 7 0 0
2020 5.3 3.5 3 0 0
2019 15.8 15.8 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · IA · Ottumwa

6,679 Couriers and Express Delivery Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 57 employers in Ottumwa, 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 ARHOT - HOT SPRINGS 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BAYSIDE CENTER (FLBAY) 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 871070000 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RAY LGX LLC 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stueve Construction LLC (All Locations) 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.W. Koehler Electric, Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE IP Waterloo NAC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE ProPulse A Schieffer Co 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS 2,121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Works 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Ottumwa Works 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Regional Health Center 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Arhot - Hot Springs 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Autism Behavior Consultants 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Amenia ICF 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Normandy Care Center 11.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mtgtf - Great Falls 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ilqui - Quincy 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cogle - Glenwood Springs 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wvpar - Parkersburg 84 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. 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.