Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Key Cooperative - Newton

Newton, IA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Key Cooperative - Newton runs at 296% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Key Cooperative - Newton: 6.5 TCR = 296% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Key Cooperative - Newton safety composite

Key Cooperative - Newton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−3.9

2023→2024

Key Cooperative - Newton injury rate improved

Key Cooperative - Newton's TCR fell 3.9 from 8.5 in 2023 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.5 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Newton, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 296% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #107/154
  • PHOTO Houston
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Houston (0.0 TCR gap)

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Key Cooperative - Newton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Key Cooperative - Newton averages 6.5 TCR (296% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Key Cooperative - Newton TCR series: 2023=8.5 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Key Cooperative - Newton falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #107 safest of 154 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Iowa.

Key Cooperative - Newton (22 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Key Cooperative - Newton
Key Cooperative - Newton (22 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Key Cooperative - Newton has fewer employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2023 8.5 8.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IA · Newton

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 55 employers in Newton, 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 Houston 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Page Seed Company Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Vincent 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SGS Retail - Saint Anthony 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR TPI Composites LLC IA 925 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newton Correctional Facility 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Progress Industries 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 748 229 FTE
NAT-TCR 1st FP Austin, LLC 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Haxton Masonry, Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Auto-Wares Warren 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6977 Ellenwood 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sharon 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Glass Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rogue Mechanical Insulation 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pace Store 22 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.