Haying machines manufacturing · Iowa

John Deere Ottumwa Works

Ottumwa, IA · ~758 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John Deere Ottumwa Works runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Haying machines manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

John Deere Ottumwa Works: 3.5 TCR = 106% of Haying machines manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John Deere Ottumwa Works safety composite

John Deere Ottumwa Works scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

John Deere Ottumwa Works: 1.9 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

John Deere Ottumwa Works's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.9 in 2016 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Ottumwa, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 106% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #19/65
  • PHOTO Reinke Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 115 inj
  • SIZE ~758 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reinke Manufacturing Company, Inc. Deshler Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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John Deere Ottumwa Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John Deere Ottumwa Works averages 3.5 TCR (106% of the Haying machines manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

John Deere Ottumwa Works TCR series: 2016=1.9 · 2017=3 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where John Deere Ottumwa Works falls in its industry

433 Haying machines manufacturing establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 65 Haying machines manufacturing employers in Iowa.

John Deere Ottumwa Works (758 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate John Deere Ottumwa Works
John Deere Ottumwa Works (758 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

John Deere Ottumwa Works has more employees than the Haying machines manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2024 2.7 1.3 15 2 0
2023 4.6 2.6 33 4 0
2022 5.3 3.0 33 10 0
2017 3.0 1.8 21 0 0
2016 1.9 1.3 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IA · Ottumwa

433 Haying machines manufacturing 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 Reinke Manufacturing Company, Inc. Deshler Location 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wylie Manufacturing 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LeeAgra, Inc 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valco Industries - New holland 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glenwood Resource Center 757 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennox Residential Marshalltown 755 FTE
STATE-SIZE Engine Works 753 FTE
STATE-SIZE MSD DAVENPORT 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS 2,121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Works 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Regional Health Center 573 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winger Contracting Company 399 FTE
NAT-TCR EAM MOSCA Corporation 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockford School District Wide 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Graftech USA LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Ely Lodge 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lifepoint Health 758 FTE
NAT-SIZE TGH Inc 758 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DFW8 758 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avera St. Luke's Hospital 758 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, 2017, 2016. 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.