Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing · Iowa

Ottumwa Works

Ottumwa, IA · ~789 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ottumwa Works runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ottumwa Works: 5.2 TCR = 157% of Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ottumwa Works safety composite

Ottumwa Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−1.1

2018→2021

Ottumwa Works injury rate improved

Ottumwa Works's TCR fell 1.1 from 5.8 in 2018 to 4.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.8 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Ottumwa, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 157% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #32/65
  • PHOTO 7798_18626
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 157 inj
  • SIZE ~789 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 7798_18626 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ottumwa Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ottumwa Works averages 5.2 TCR (157% of the Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ottumwa Works TCR series: 2018=5.8 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Ottumwa Works falls in its industry

433 Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotto establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 65 Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotto employers in Iowa.

Ottumwa Works (789 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ottumwa Works
Ottumwa Works (789 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Ottumwa Works has more employees than the Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, st median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2021 4.7 3.5 37 0 0
2020 5.4 3.5 40 1 0
2019 4.9 3.3 38 1 0
2018 5.8 3.6 42 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IA · Ottumwa

433 Balers, farm-type (e.g., cotton, hay, straw), manufacturing 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 7798_18626 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR H&S MFG. CO. INC. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kondex Corporation 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chief Fabrication 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center 790 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Mills Cedar Rapids Iowa 792 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Premium 792 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS 2,121 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Ottumwa Works 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Regional Health Center 573 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winger Contracting Company 399 FTE
NAT-TCR St Clair Winery & Bistro 1, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CCES 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CWPMI, Inc dba College Works Painting 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Eger Harbor House 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC-035 789 FTE
NAT-SIZE 430-DC001 789 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0908 - Cwi Optical Lab - Ca 789 FTE
NAT-SIZE FL_Auburndale_1004 US Highway 92W_00610106 789 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.