Courier Services Except by Air · Iowa

Ottumwa (Iaott)

Ottumwa, IA · ~73 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ottumwa (Iaott) runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Courier Services Except by Air workplace, earning a grade C.

Ottumwa (Iaott): 6.7 TCR = 103% of Courier Services Except by Air BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ottumwa (Iaott) safety composite

Ottumwa (Iaott) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
B 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Ottumwa (Iaott): 2.0 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2018

Ottumwa (Iaott)'s TCR rose 4.1 from 2.0 in 2016 to 6.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 492110 · Ottumwa, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 6.7 · 103% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #30/82
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - DLB2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ottumwa (Iaott) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ottumwa (Iaott) averages 6.7 TCR (103% of the Courier Services Except by Air BLS benchmark).

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

Ottumwa (Iaott) TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=11.9 · 2018=6.1 · BLS 6.5

Where Ottumwa (Iaott) falls in its industry

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 82 Courier Services Except by Air employers in Iowa.

Ottumwa (Iaott) (73 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ottumwa (Iaott)
Ottumwa (Iaott) (73 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 8.0

Ottumwa (Iaott) has fewer employees than the Courier Services Except by Air median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.0. 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 6.1 2.0 3 0 0
2017 11.9 7.9 6 0 0
2016 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

492110 · IA · Ottumwa

6,679 Courier Services Except by Air 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DLB2 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MILAR - LANSING AIRPORT 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FedEx 3080 TRADEPORT DR 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 125500001 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lone Tree 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Field Services (Public Services, Parks & Signs/Signals 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caruth Construction Inc. 73 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 Laguna Hub (Calag) 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Durham Center (Ncdur) 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Transystems LLC - Manufacturing Division 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 8401/3070 KAO/Keystone Exeter 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Galesburg (Ilgal) 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dodgeville (Widod) 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rice Lake (Wiric) 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkview Adult Medicine Clinic/ Residency Program/ Medical Education Department 73 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, 2016. 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.