Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Iowa

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe

Name: NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Duncombe, IA · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.3
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe runs at 285% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe: 6.3 TCR = 285% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe safety composite

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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. - Duncombe: 4.0 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe's TCR rose 4.4 from 4.0 in 2023 to 8.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 285% of ind

DART 4.2 DART
RANK #103/154
PHOTO Harrisburg Feed
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harrisburg Feed (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.3
Harrisburg Fee

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Davenport NE

6.3
Farmers Coop S

6.3

What this shows NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe averages 6.3 TCR (285% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe TCR series: 2023=4 · 2024=8.5 · BLS 2.2

Where NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #103 safest of 154 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Iowa.

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe (23 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe has fewer employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal 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	8.5	4.2	2	0	0
2023	4.0	4.0	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IA · Duncombe

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Duncombe, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Harrisburg Feed	HARRISBURG, OR	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	AgCentral Farmers Co-op, Athens	ATHENS, TN	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Davenport NE	DAVENPORT, NE	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Farmers Coop Society-Sanborn	SANBORN, IA	6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Remsen Farmers Coop	REMSEN	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	M L Kapp Power Station 2	CLINTON	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Marshalltown Gen Station	MARSHALLTOWN	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	City of Ames - Electric Distribution	AMES	23 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Koch Fertilizer Ft. Dodge	Duncombe	83 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge	Duncombe	76 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill	Duncombe	22 FTE
NAT-TCR	Stock Yards St. Petersburg	St. Petersburg, FL	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dakota Blenders	St. Louis, MO	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Michie Concrete Products, LLC	Henniker, NH	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Riverbend Nursing & Rehabilitation Center	Belle Chasse, LA	6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Families in Recovery Program	Norwalk, CT	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rossman Apiaries LLC	Moultrie, GA	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	S.P. Richards Boston	Nashua, NH	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Petland Cicero	Cicero, NY	23 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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