Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Iowa

New Century FS

Ames, IA · ~425 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Century FS runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

New Century FS: 1.0 TCR = 45% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Century FS safety composite

New Century FS scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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%).

New Century FS held a steady TCR band

New Century FS's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.9 in 2023 to 1.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=0.9 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Ames, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 45% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #14/154
  • PHOTO St Francisville
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~425 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St Francisville (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Century FS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Century FS averages 1.0 TCR (45% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

New Century FS TCR series: 2023=0.9 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 2.2

Where New Century FS falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 154 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Iowa.

New Century FS (425 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate New Century FS
New Century FS (425 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

New Century FS has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.1 1.1 4 0 0
2023 0.9 0.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IA · Ames

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 St Francisville 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Garden - Ohio 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Irvine Wood Recovery Inc 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Merschman Seeds 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mediacom Communications Corporation 425 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH62 Crick 424 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modern 426 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ankeny Warehouse 423 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR Berumen'S Farm Labor Services, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR McGriff Tire Company 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Scot Electrical Products 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Holly Custom Print Company, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cabak - Bakersfield Center 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Falcon Farms- Fl 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE Segerstrom Center for the Arts 425 FTE
NAT-SIZE NY, Rochester - Innovation Dr RTP 5-6 (SAS-SS) 425 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. 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.