Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Iowa

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper

Jefferson, IA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper runs at 350% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper: 7.7 TCR = 350% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper safety composite

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper: 4.3 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper's TCR rose 6.8 from 4.3 in 2023 to 11.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Jefferson, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 350% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #121/154
  • PHOTO Hawkins3700
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hawkins3700 (0.0 TCR gap)

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NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper averages 7.7 TCR (350% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper TCR series: 2023=4.3 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 2.2

Where NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #121 safest of 154 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Iowa.

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper (22 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 Cooperative Inc. - Cooper
NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper (22 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Cooper has fewer employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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 11.1 0.0 3 0 0
2023 4.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IA · Jefferson

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 9 employers in Jefferson, 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 Hawkins3700 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Starbuck Office and Agronomy 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ETE 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Waseca 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greene County Medical Center 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wild Rose Casino 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jefferson - Main Store 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Athletic, Inc. 85 FTE
NAT-TCR Ncfay - Fayetteville Center 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Papot - Pottsville 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR AERCON Florida LLC 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin'S Food Markets 6299 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE UTR Services 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE TownePlace Suites Milwaukee West Bend 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gerretsen Building Supply 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACME Metal Spinning 22 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.