New car dealers · Iowa

Karl of Story City

Story City, IA · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Karl of Story City runs at 97% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical New car dealers workplace, earning a grade C.

Karl of Story City: 3.3 TCR = 97% of New car dealers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Karl of Story City safety composite

Karl of Story City 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Karl of Story City: 2.3 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Karl of Story City's TCR rose 2.0 from 2.3 in 2023 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 97% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/31
  • PHOTO Aubrey Alexander Toy…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aubrey Alexander Toyota (0.0 TCR gap)

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Karl of Story City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Karl of Story City averages 3.3 TCR (97% 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 Story City TCR series: 2023=2.3 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Karl of Story City falls in its industry

2,847 New car dealers establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #11 safest of 31 New car dealers employers in Iowa.

Karl of Story City (43 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 Story City
Karl of Story City (43 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Karl of Story City has fewer 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 4.3 0.0 2 0 0
2023 2.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · IA · Story City

2,847 New car dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 16 employers in Story City, 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 Aubrey Alexander Toyota 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kendall Ford/Lincoln/Mazda - Bend 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIVE STAR SUBARU OF GRAPEVINE LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peterbilt of Alexandria 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms North 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koester Construction Company Incorporated 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Contracting Services 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Packaging Corporation 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bethany Manor, Inc 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Packaging Corporation Flexographic Center of Excellence 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bethany Life 270 FTE
NAT-TCR Basswood Elementary School 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Langer Transport Corp 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tucson 10111 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ncsal - Salisbury 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ord Cst 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mauser Packaging Solutions 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tasco Plumbing & Mechanical Services 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gottlieb Inc. 43 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.