Cold storage warehousing · Iowa

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars

Le Mars, IA · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cold storage warehousing workplace, earning a grade D.

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars: 7.4 TCR = 127% of Cold storage warehousing BLS 5.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars safety composite

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.3

2016→2021

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars injury rate improved

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars's TCR fell 5.3 from 5.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2018=16.9 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Le Mars, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 127% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #28/35
  • PHOTO Siegel Egg Company
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Siegel Egg Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars averages 7.4 TCR (127% of the Cold storage warehousing BLS benchmark).

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

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2018=16.9 · 2021=0 · BLS 5.8

Where Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars falls in its industry

1,039 Cold storage warehousing establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 35 Cold storage warehousing employers in Iowa.

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars (34 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars
Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars (34 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Nor-Am Cold Storage - Le Mars has fewer employees than the Cold storage warehousing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 16.9 16.9 7 0 0
2016 5.3 2.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · IA · Le Mars

1,039 Cold storage warehousing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 43 employers in Le Mars, 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 Siegel Egg Company 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deploy HR Redlands 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sugar Creek Packing- Bundy 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Ice Cream Freezer 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE BP Land, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2511-Beaman, IA 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belle Plaine 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE KR Farm Labor Services, LLC 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Ice Cream Plant 1,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center- Headquarter Employees 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Ice Cream Freezer 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Modern Drywall, Inc. 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR S03761 - WM - Elizabethtown 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR White Castle System, Inc. - Rensselaer Bakery 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Water Resources 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Colonnas Shipyard West LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7251-Enphg-Cedar Crest College 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE east plant 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bakery Feeds - Henderson 34 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: 2021, 2018, 2016. 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.