Candy stores, chocolate, candy made on premises not for immediate consumption · Iowa

Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store

Sioux City, IA · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Candy stores, chocolate, candy made on premises not for immediate consumption workplace, earning a grade C.

Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store: 4.4 TCR = 105% of Candy stores, chocolate, candy made on premises not for immediate consumption BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store safety composite

Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

−8.8

2022→2023

Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store injury rate improved

Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store's TCR fell 8.8 from 8.8 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.8 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311352 · Sioux City, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.4 · 105% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Fannie May Confectio…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fannie May Confections Brands (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store averages 4.4 TCR (105% of the Candy stores, chocolate, candy made on premises not for immediate consumption BLS benchmark).

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

Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store TCR series: 2022=8.8 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.2

Where Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store falls in its industry

86 Candy stores, chocolate, candy establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 5 Candy stores, chocolate, candy employers in Iowa.

Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store (26 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store
Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store (26 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Palmer Candy Company- Candy Store has fewer employees than the Candy stores, chocolate, candy made on p median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 8.8 8.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311352 · IA · Sioux City

86 Candy stores, chocolate, candy made on premises not for immediate consumption employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, 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 Fannie May Confections Brands 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arway Confections Inc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thompson Brands LLC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creative Snacks Co. 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eastwood Sow Unit 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4806-Urbandale, IA 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE DBQ Downtown Office 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Iowa Electric Cooperative 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Total Quality Maintenance, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Vintage Leather 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Glenwood 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR West Troy 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE C1468 Adams Ave 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE C2066 Natchez 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE BPT Bridgeport 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Hooker Company Inc 26 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.