Farm supply stores · Iowa

River Valley Cooperative

Eldridge, IA · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

River Valley Cooperative runs at 213% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade F.

River Valley Cooperative: 7.2 TCR = 213% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

River Valley Cooperative safety composite

River Valley Cooperative scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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: 5.0 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

River Valley Cooperative's TCR rose 4.5 from 5.0 in 2023 to 9.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444220 · Eldridge, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 213% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #15/28
  • PHOTO Wholesale Gardens
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wholesale Gardens (0.0 TCR gap)

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River Valley Cooperative in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows River Valley Cooperative averages 7.2 TCR (213% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

River Valley Cooperative TCR series: 2023=5 · 2024=9.5 · BLS 3.4

Where River Valley Cooperative falls in its industry

642 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 28 Farm supply stores employers in Iowa.

River Valley Cooperative (23 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate River Valley Cooperative
River Valley Cooperative (23 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.9

River Valley Cooperative has fewer employees than the Farm supply stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2024 9.5 4.8 2 0 0
2023 5.0 5.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444220 · IA · Eldridge

642 Farm supply stores 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Wholesale Gardens 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR RK-050-Peru ( RK-050 ) 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cornell Farm 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 791 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 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 Austin 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Edward Homes 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergy Equipment Sarasota 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Home City Ice Company Route 128 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Location 37005 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hochstetler Wood 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cooper Rail Service, Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE North America Corporate Distribution Center 23 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: 2024, 2023. 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.