New car dealers · Iowa

Karl of Marshalltown

Marshalltown, IA · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Karl of Marshalltown runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical New car dealers workplace, earning a grade B.

Karl of Marshalltown: 2.0 TCR = 60% of New car dealers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Karl of Marshalltown safety composite

Karl of Marshalltown scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.6

2023→2024

Karl of Marshalltown injury rate improved

Karl of Marshalltown's TCR fell 1.6 from 2.8 in 2023 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.8 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Marshalltown, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/31
  • PHOTO 08000-08-08-COBURG
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 08000-08-08-COBURG (0.0 TCR gap)

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Karl of Marshalltown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Karl of Marshalltown averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the New car dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Karl of Marshalltown TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Karl of Marshalltown falls in its industry

2,847 New car dealers establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 31 New car dealers employers in Iowa.

Karl of Marshalltown (71 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Karl of Marshalltown
Karl of Marshalltown (71 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Karl of Marshalltown has more employees than the New car dealers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · IA · Marshalltown

2,847 New car dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 67 employers in Marshalltown, 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 08000-08-08-COBURG 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MID CITY MOTOR WORLD 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kearny Mesa Infiniti 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salt Lake 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maquoketa Valley Electric Cooperative 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peters Construction Corporation 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE T & K Roofing & Sheet Metal Company Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Mechanical Corp 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swift Pork Company 2,350 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS Marshalltown 2,231 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa Veterans Home 1,067 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lennox Residential Marshalltown 755 FTE
NAT-TCR Hds Cal Mo 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Calumet Park 10293 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sparks Maintenance Contracting 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Akron 10402 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stock Yards St. Petersburg 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE LI Airpark 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Quality Packaging Corp. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anchor Bay at East Providence 71 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. 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.