Nuts, chocolate covered, made from purchased chocolate · Iowa
Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75
Sioux City, IA · ~216 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 7.7
- Avg TCR
- 4.2
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75 runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nuts, chocolate covered, made from purchased chocolate workplace, earning a grade D.
Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75: 7.7 TCR = 184% of Nuts, chocolate covered, made from purchased chocolate BLS 4.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75 safety composite
Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).
19/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 7.74 per 100 workers
Safer than 12% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 11.7 per 100 workers
Safer than 5% 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
Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75: 2.6 → 13.2 TCR
Peak year 2024 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2024
Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75's TCR rose 10.6 from 2.6 in 2016 to 13.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 311352 · Sioux City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID
Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 184% of ind
- DART 11.7 DART
- RANK #4/5
- PHOTO Linette Quality Choc…
- BOOK 5y book
- INJ 60 inj
- SIZE ~216 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Linette Quality Chocolates (0.2 TCR gap)
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Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75 in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- Palmer Candy C
Palmer Candy Company Bluff St
8.5 TCR
- Brad Barry Com
Brad Barry Company Ltd.
8.1 TCR
- Linette Qualit
Linette Quality Chocolates
7.9 TCR
- This site
Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75
7.7 TCR
- Malley's Choco
Malley's Chocolates
6.9 TCR
What this shows Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75 averages 7.7 TCR (184% of the Nuts, chocolate covered, made from purchased chocolate BLS benchmark).
Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75 TCR series: 2016=2.6 · 2017=8.1 · 2018=5.7 · 2021=9.1 · 2024=13.2 · BLS 4.2
Where Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75 falls in its industry
86 Nuts, chocolate covered, made establishmentsSafer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.
Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Nuts, chocolate covered, made employers in Iowa.
Palmer Candy Company Hwy 75 has more employees than the Nuts, chocolate covered, made from purch 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13.2 | 11.7 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 9.1 | 8.3 | 23 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2.6 | 2.6 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
311352 · IA · Sioux City
86 Nuts, chocolate covered, made from purchased chocolate 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 | Linette Quality Chocolates | 7.9 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Brad Barry Company Ltd. | 8.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Palmer Candy Company Bluff St | 8.5 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Malley's Chocolates | 6.9 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Clow Valve Company | 216 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | IA001 - IA-Des Moines-Pilot Travel Center | 216 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Iowa Home Care West Des Moines Branch | 216 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinics | 216 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 | New Iberia Manor South | 7.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | OnRamp LLC | 7.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Elite Landscape Services LLC | 7.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Route 64 Logistics LLC | 7.7 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | HWP Development, LLC | 216 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Boysen USA Alabama, LLC | 216 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Magnum Electric Inc | 216 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Raleigh Hdq | 216 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.