Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Rueters Elkhart

Elkhart, IA · ~29 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rueters Elkhart runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Rueters Elkhart: 4.0 TCR = 182% of Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rueters Elkhart safety composite

Rueters Elkhart scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.1

2016→2024

Rueters Elkhart injury rate improved

Rueters Elkhart's TCR fell 2.1 from 5.7 in 2016 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.7 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=7.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Elkhart, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #31/70
  • PHOTO WCTractor 11
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WCTractor 11 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rueters Elkhart in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rueters Elkhart averages 4.0 TCR (182% of the Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Rueters Elkhart TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=7 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Rueters Elkhart falls in its industry

700 Agricultural machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 70 Agricultural machinery and equ employers in Iowa.

Rueters Elkhart (29 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rueters Elkhart
Rueters Elkhart (29 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Rueters Elkhart has fewer employees than the Agricultural machinery and equipment mer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2020 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2016 5.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Elkhart

700 Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR WCTractor 11 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maine Potato Growers, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Torgerson's - Billings CE 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bodensteiner Implement Company Monticello Location 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE FDML Forest City 0016 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dogwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery Valley Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhart 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rueter's - Elkhart 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods #224 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gary Scrap Yard 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cibolo 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Paratransit Services - Medford 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schuylkill Paving Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transport Service 60022 Midwest 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parrish 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlsborg Operations Center/Engineering 29 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.