Agricultural machinery and equipment rental or leasing · Iowa

Rueter's - Elkhart

Elkhart, IA · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rueter's - Elkhart runs at 457% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural machinery and equipment rental or leasing workplace, earning a grade F.

Rueter's - Elkhart: 6.4 TCR = 457% of Agricultural machinery and equipment rental or leasing BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rueter's - Elkhart safety composite

Rueter's - Elkhart scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.6

2018→2019

Rueter's - Elkhart injury rate improved

Rueter's - Elkhart's TCR fell 3.6 from 8.2 in 2018 to 4.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.2 · 2019=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 532490 · Elkhart, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 457% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Bobcat of Abilene
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bobcat of Abilene (0.1 TCR gap)

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Rueter's - Elkhart in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rueter's - Elkhart averages 6.4 TCR (457% of the Agricultural machinery and equipment rental or leasing BLS benchmark).

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

Rueter's - Elkhart TCR series: 2018=8.2 · 2019=4.6 · BLS 1.4

Where Rueter's - Elkhart falls in its industry

120 Agricultural machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Agricultural machinery and equ employers in Iowa.

Rueter's - Elkhart (19 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 Rueter's - Elkhart
Rueter's - Elkhart (19 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Rueter's - Elkhart has fewer employees than the Agricultural machinery and equipment ren median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2019 4.6 4.6 1 0 0
2018 8.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

532490 · IA · Elkhart

120 Agricultural machinery and equipment rental or leasing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 3 employers in Elkhart, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Bobcat of Abilene 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ontario Convention Center 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acadia Management - NJ 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 48130007-FREEMAN AV LAS VEGAS FREEMAN AUDIO VISUAL, LLC TX 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH15 Soybean Growth Chamber Building 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power Cooperative 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE main 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rueters Elkhart 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Haskell Healthcare Center 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Roger's Gardens Newport Beach 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresno - 303 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LSG Sky Chefs AUS 6.4 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: 2019, 2018. 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.