Retail Hardware Stores · Iowa

Ottumwa, Ia #03317

Ottumwa, IA · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ottumwa, Ia #03317 runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Ottumwa, Ia #03317: 4.6 TCR = 136% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ottumwa, Ia #03317 safety composite

Ottumwa, Ia #03317 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Ottumwa, Ia #03317: 0.0 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2023

Ottumwa, Ia #03317's TCR rose 9.3 from 0.0 in 2022 to 9.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Ottumwa, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 136% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #4/14
  • PHOTO 0199 - BRICK, NJ
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0199 - BRICK, NJ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ottumwa, Ia #03317 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ottumwa, Ia #03317 averages 4.6 TCR (136% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Ottumwa, Ia #03317 TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=9.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Ottumwa, Ia #03317 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 14 Retail Hardware Stores employers in Iowa.

Ottumwa, Ia #03317 (19 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ottumwa, Ia #03317
Ottumwa, Ia #03317 (19 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Ottumwa, Ia #03317 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 9.3 9.3 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · IA · Ottumwa

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 57 employers in Ottumwa, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 0199 - BRICK, NJ 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR YONKERS, NY #03287 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUNNYSIDE, WA #03346 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0744 - JASPER, AL 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH15 Soybean Growth Chamber Building 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power Cooperative 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE main 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS 2,121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Works 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Ottumwa Works 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Regional Health Center 573 FTE
NAT-TCR Wonton Food Inc Cookie Long Island City 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 030-DET 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR D & G Mechanical Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Marine Associates 4.6 TCR

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: 2023, 2022. 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.