Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufacturing · Iowa

Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge

Duncombe, IA · ~76 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge: 2.8 TCR = 85% of Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge safety composite

Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge: 2.5 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2024

Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge's TCR rose 1.1 from 2.5 in 2022 to 3.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325311 · Duncombe, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO PAN AMERICAN GRAIN C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PAN AMERICAN GRAIN COMPANY-FERTILIZER (0.0 TCR gap)

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Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge averages 2.8 TCR (85% of the Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge TCR series: 2022=2.5 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge falls in its industry

85 Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #7 safest of 7 Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous employers in Iowa.

Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge (76 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge
Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge (76 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge has more employees than the Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufact 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 3.5 1.2 3 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2022 2.5 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325311 · IA · Duncombe

85 Ammonia, anhydrous and aqueous, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Duncombe, 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 PAN AMERICAN GRAIN COMPANY-FERTILIZER 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Andersons Inc. - Upper Sandusky 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sergeant Bluff, IA - PN 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Plains Synfuels Plant 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. - Durant, IA SPSC 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Pollution Control (WPC) 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE P&G Iowa City 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Constructors Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Fertilizer Ft. Dodge 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill 22 FTE
NAT-TCR HealthTrust Workforce Solutions 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR H&T Nevada, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Walker Rehabilitation Center, inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 443020-LewPort - Wilson | NY | 443020 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chapel Restaurant, LLC 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE S11179 - Indy Northwest Transport Lebanon 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Reno Nursing Center, LLC dba River Oaks Skilled Nursing and Therapy 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE T&J Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc 76 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. 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.