423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

Lawton

Lawton, IA · ~16 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lawton runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Lawton: 3.8 TCR = 173% of 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lawton safety composite

Lawton scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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)
C 3.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−6.6

2018→2024

Lawton injury rate improved

Lawton's TCR fell 6.6 from 6.6 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.6 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 3.8 · 173% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #30/70
  • PHOTO Swayzee Ag
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swayzee Ag (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lawton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lawton averages 3.8 TCR (173% of the 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Lawton TCR series: 2018=6.6 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Lawton falls in its industry

700 423820 Farm and Garden Machine establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #30 safest of 70 423820 Farm and Garden Machine employers in Iowa.

Lawton (16 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Lawton
Lawton (16 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Lawton has fewer employees than the 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equ median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2018 6.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Lawton

700 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Lawton, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Swayzee Ag 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ValleyInd Main 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turf Star, Inc. - Kent 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Live Oak FL 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Indian Creek 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dike 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signet Builders Inc. - Iowa Office & Shop 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE 103582 - Rivers Edge Parking Structure 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR RJ Tide Construction Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid States Electric Company Inc. 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lawton Senior Living 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Columbia Container 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Outcomes Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR San Antonio 10157 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR K & Y Manufacturing, LLC 3.8 TCR

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, 2018. 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.