Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Kunau Implement -Preston

Preston, IA · ~23 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kunau Implement -Preston runs at 211% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Kunau Implement -Preston: 4.7 TCR = 211% of Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kunau Implement -Preston safety composite

Kunau Implement -Preston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

Kunau Implement -Preston: 0.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2024

Kunau Implement -Preston's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Preston, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 211% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #40/70
  • PHOTO H & R Agripower - Ru…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: H & R Agripower - Russellville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kunau Implement -Preston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kunau Implement -Preston averages 4.7 TCR (211% of the Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Kunau Implement -Preston TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=10.7 · 2021=9.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Kunau Implement -Preston falls in its industry

700 Planting machinery and equipme establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 70 Planting machinery and equipme employers in Iowa.

Kunau Implement -Preston (23 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kunau Implement -Preston
Kunau Implement -Preston (23 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Kunau Implement -Preston has fewer employees than the Planting machinery and equipment, farm-t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 9.2 0.0 2 0 0
2020 10.7 0.0 3 0 0
2019 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Preston

700 Planting machinery and equipment, farm-type, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Preston, 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 H & R Agripower - Russellville 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashland AG 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leonard Water Services, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bodensteiner Implement Company Oelwein Location 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Plastics Unlimited 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kunau Implement 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR 70474 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Hayward Healthcare and Wellness Center 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Macon Trading Post, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR BURNSVILLE 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH086 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE BnK Construction Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Screw Products, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zero Waste Energy Development Company, LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bonannos New York Pizzeria #310 MGM Dome 23 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.