Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing · Iowa

Muscatine, IA

Muscatine, IA · ~464 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Muscatine, IA runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Muscatine, IA: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Muscatine, IA safety composite

Muscatine, IA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Muscatine, IA held a steady TCR band

Muscatine, IA's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.0 in 2021 to 1.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.0 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325320 · Muscatine, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #1/11
  • PHOTO Agrochem USA LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~464 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Agrochem USA LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Muscatine, IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Muscatine, IA averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Muscatine, IA TCR series: 2021=1 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Muscatine, IA falls in its industry

145 Pesticide and Other Agricultur establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 11 Pesticide and Other Agricultur employers in Iowa.

Muscatine, IA (464 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Muscatine, IA
Muscatine, IA (464 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Muscatine, IA has more employees than the Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemica median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 1.3 1.1 6 0 0
2023 1.5 1.1 7 0 0
2022 1.3 1.1 4 2 0
2021 1.0 0.8 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325320 · IA · Muscatine

145 Pesticide and Other Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 79 employers in Muscatine, 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 Agrochem USA LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valent Biosciences Osage Plant 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omnium - Blytheville 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR BASF Agricultural Solutions US LLC 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dee Zee Broadway 465 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ames Main 465 FTE
STATE-SIZE SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) 466 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Dubuque - Housing 461 FTE
CITY-NEAR Highway 61 982 FTE
CITY-NEAR HON Company Administration 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR SSAB Iowa Inc. 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR GPC - Muscatine 453 FTE
NAT-TCR LAZ Parking Limited, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Serpa Packaging Solutions 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Marks Powders, Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Valley East 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE IMT Residential 464 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rosemont 464 FTE
NAT-SIZE College of Saint Benedict 464 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sprayfoam Southwest Inc dba Global Roofing Group 464 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, 2021. 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.