Cold storage warehousing · Iowa

Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer

Spencer, IA · ~17 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.5
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer runs at 302% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cold storage warehousing workplace, earning a grade F.

Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer: 17.5 TCR = 302% of Cold storage warehousing BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer safety composite

Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer: 15.0 → 20.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 20.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2017

Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer's TCR rose 5.0 from 15.0 in 2016 to 20.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Spencer, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.5 · 302% of ind

  • DART 20.0 DART
  • RANK #35/35
  • PHOTO Columbia Case Rdy Di…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Columbia Case Rdy Distribution (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer averages 17.5 TCR (302% of the Cold storage warehousing BLS benchmark).

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

Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer TCR series: 2016=15 · 2017=20 · BLS 5.8

Where Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer falls in its industry

1,039 Cold storage warehousing establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 35 Cold storage warehousing employers in Iowa.

Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer (17 employees, TCR 17.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer
Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer (17 employees, TCR 17.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Quality Refrigerated Services Spencer has fewer employees than the Cold storage warehousing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2017 20.0 20.0 4 0 0
2016 15.0 7.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · IA · Spencer

1,039 Cold storage warehousing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 44 employers in Spencer, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Columbia Case Rdy Distribution 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 089 - Lansing Cold Storage 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eskimo Cold Storage 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Americold Eastpoint, GA 16.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Corning) 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE C26 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williams 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spencer #025 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnold Motor Supply 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spencer Hospital 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spencer Municipal Hospital 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2714 221 FTE
NAT-TCR SVC - Kona Coast Resort 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Port of Newport 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Allied Potato Northwest 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenridge Place 17.5 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: 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.