Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Mid Country Machinery

Fort Dodge, IA · ~65 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mid Country Machinery runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Mid Country Machinery: 5.0 TCR = 225% of Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mid Country Machinery safety composite

Mid Country Machinery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

Mid Country Machinery: 0.0 → 1.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 15.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Mid Country Machinery's TCR rose 1.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Fort Dodge, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.0 · 225% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Abingdon
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Abingdon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mid Country Machinery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mid Country Machinery averages 5.0 TCR (225% of the Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Mid Country Machinery TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=15.5 · 2018=3.1 · 2020=1.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Mid Country Machinery falls in its industry

533 Construction machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Construction machinery and equ employers in Iowa.

Mid Country Machinery (65 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 Mid Country Machinery
Mid Country Machinery (65 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Mid Country Machinery has more employees than the Construction machinery and equipment mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2020 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.1 1.5 2 0 0
2017 15.5 15.5 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · IA · Fort Dodge

533 Construction machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 75 employers in Fort Dodge, 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 Abingdon 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Synergy Equipment Corp. dba Bobcat of Miami 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Martin Equipment 6 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baltimore Rents80 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE PDA Duane Arnold 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dubuque Operating Center 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forrest and Associate Inc 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids, IA/Quad Cities HVAC 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center 790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Point Trinity Regional Medical Center 648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Terminal 539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Correctional Facility 452 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Visual Group- Sign Company 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlsbad Seapointe Resort Owners Assn. Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sensient Colors LLC. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR UEO N&L Poulsbo, WA Site 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marquette Board of Light and Power 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE I85 Db 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stoever-Parker Electric, Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ari Nkc 65 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: 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.