Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming · Iowa

Nursery Department- Fuss Office

Name: Nursery Department- Fuss Office Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Elma, IA · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 10.6
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Nursery Department- Fuss Office runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Nursery Department- Fuss Office: 10.6 TCR = 235% of Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nursery Department- Fuss Office safety composite

Nursery Department- Fuss Office scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 10.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers
DART rate: F 10.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Nursery Department- Fuss Office: 10.3 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2024

Nursery Department- Fuss Office's TCR rose 0.7 from 10.3 in 2023 to 10.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112210 · Elma, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 235% of ind

DART 10.9 DART
RANK #22/40
PHOTO SEABOARD FOODS LP IO…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SEABOARD FOODS LP IOWA MAINT (0.0 TCR gap)

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LDC FARROWING

10.7
Beaver Valley

10.7
This site

10.6
SEABOARD FOODS

10.6
C000-ON Site

10.6

What this shows Nursery Department- Fuss Office averages 10.6 TCR (235% of the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS benchmark).

Nursery Department- Fuss Office TCR series: 2023=10.3 · 2024=10.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Nursery Department- Fuss Office falls in its industry

280 Hog and pig (including breedin establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 40 Hog and pig (including breedin employers in Iowa.

Nursery Department- Fuss Office (32 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7

Nursery Department- Fuss Office has more employees than the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.7. 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	10.9	10.9	5	0	0
2023	10.3	10.3	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112210 · IA · Elma

280 Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 3 employers in Elma, 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	SEABOARD FOODS LP IOWA MAINT	AMES, IA	10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	C000-ON Site	ATKINSON, NE	10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	LDC FARROWING	ATKINSON, NE	10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Beaver Valley	ST. EDWARD, NE	10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	GSC Agribusiness	CARROLL	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Centrum Valley North	CLARION	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Washington	WASHINGTON	32 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Burlington Gen Station	BURLINGTON	32 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Colonial Manor of Elma, Inc.	Elma	64 FTE
CITY-NEAR	IAS Elma	Elma	13 FTE
NAT-TCR	The Bridge at Inverrary	Lauderhill, FL	10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Neuvant House of Lawrence	Lawrence, KS	10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Inland Empire Paper Company	Spokane, WA	10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mullican Care Center	Savoy, TX	10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Gator Fort Myers	North Fort Myers, FL	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Vantage Construction Corporation	Ashburn, VA	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Zotefoams Midwest	Tulsa, OK	32 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Brooklyn Resource Recovery, Inc.	Brooklyn, NY	32 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.