Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Iowa

NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill

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

F
Failing Safety Record
13.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill runs at 608% 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 Mill: 13.4 TCR = 608% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill safety composite

NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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 Mill: 12.7 → 14.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2018

NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill's TCR rose 1.3 from 12.7 in 2017 to 14.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.05× 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 13.4 · 608% of ind

  • DART 14.0 DART
  • RANK #151/154
  • PHOTO Weyauwega Feed/Agron…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Weyauwega Feed/Agronomy (0.0 TCR gap)

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NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill averages 13.4 TCR (608% 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 Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill TCR series: 2017=12.7 · 2018=14 · BLS 2.2

Where NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #151 safest of 154 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Iowa.

NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill (22 employees, TCR 13.4) 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. - Duncombe Mill
NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill (22 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

NEW Cooperative, Inc. - Duncombe Mill 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
2018 14.0 14.0 3 0 0
2017 12.7 12.7 3 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Weyauwega Feed/Agronomy 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern States Midlothian Service 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Structures 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR (05) VC Location 13.3 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 Koch Fertilizer Ft. Dodge 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Koch Fertilizer Fort Dodge 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEW Cooperative Inc. - Duncombe 23 FTE
NAT-TCR thyssenkrupp Industrial Services - Louisville 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR F. J. Kennedy School 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MRP Holdings, LLC - Helena 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 244 ABC Supply Co., Inc 13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carlyle 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ventura Foods, SALEM 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Mansfield 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Product Transportation 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: 2018, 2017. 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.