Nitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing · Iowa

Iowa Fertilizer Company

Wever, IA · ~240 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa Fertilizer Company runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Nitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Iowa Fertilizer Company: 2.4 TCR = 71% of Nitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa Fertilizer Company safety composite

Iowa Fertilizer Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Iowa Fertilizer Company held a steady TCR band

Iowa Fertilizer Company's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.9 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.9 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=1.6 · 2021=3.8 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325311 · Wever, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 71% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Fremont
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~240 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fremont (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iowa Fertilizer Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa Fertilizer Company averages 2.4 TCR (71% of the Nitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Iowa Fertilizer Company TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=1.6 · 2021=3.8 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Iowa Fertilizer Company falls in its industry

85 Nitrogenous fertilizer materia establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Nitrogenous fertilizer materia employers in Iowa.

Iowa Fertilizer Company (240 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Iowa Fertilizer Company
Iowa Fertilizer Company (240 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Iowa Fertilizer Company has more employees than the Nitrogenous fertilizer materials manufac median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 1.9 1.3 6 0 0
2021 3.8 3.4 2 8 0
2019 1.6 0.8 4 0 0
2018 2.6 0.0 6 0 0
2016 1.9 0.9 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325311 · IA · Wever

85 Nitrogenous fertilizer materials manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Wever, 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 Fremont 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chilton Agronomy and Grain 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Dorado Nitrogen L.L.C. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cherokee Nitrogen, LLC 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nestle Purina Petcare Company 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Wittern Group 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Group Inc 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE 784 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR IFCO Wever IA - BIS 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Allen Blasting and Coating, Inc. 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR IFCo Project 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Torrid LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mli Ltl 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunshine Sign Company Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowrie Electric Company, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Treehouse Foods, INC 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Action South Central Michigan 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Palazzo 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maker's Mark Distillery 240 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, 2021, 2019, 2018, 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.