Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Iowa

River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge

Eldridge, IA · ~18 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge: 4.1 TCR = 185% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge safety composite

River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge: 4.5 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2021

River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge's TCR rose 7.4 from 4.5 in 2016 to 11.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Eldridge, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #72/154
  • PHOTO Whittlesey #1110
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Whittlesey #1110 (0.0 TCR gap)

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River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge averages 4.1 TCR (185% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=11.9 · BLS 2.2

Where River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 154 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Iowa.

River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge (18 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge
River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge (18 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

River Valley Cooperative-Eldridge has fewer employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 11.9 5.9 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.5 4.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IA · Eldridge

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 23 employers in Eldridge, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Whittlesey #1110 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teche Farm Supplies 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers Win Coop (Burr Oak) 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pullman, WA 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatteras 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Pork 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Orange City OCY1 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE River City Stone 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR LMT Defense 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR Uniparts Olsen, Inc. 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR Logistic Service, LLC 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amhof Trucking, Inc. 89 FTE
NAT-TCR WTPS Osceola MRT 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR R&R Packaging, Inc. - Noel 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DC Brau Brewing LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Shiloh W/R/S 4.1 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: 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016. 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.