Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Sanborn

Sanborn, IA · ~102 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sanborn runs at 834% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Sanborn: 18.4 TCR = 834% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sanborn safety composite

Sanborn scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.07 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2019→2024

Sanborn injury rate improved

Sanborn's TCR fell 2.4 from 12.8 in 2019 to 10.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 31.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=12.8 · 2020=11.3 · 2021=23.8 · 2022=31.2 · 2023=20.6 · 2024=10.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Sanborn, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 18.4 · 834% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #154/154
  • PHOTO Southern States Hard…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 99 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern States Hardin Coop (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sanborn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sanborn averages 18.4 TCR (834% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sanborn TCR series: 2019=12.8 · 2020=11.3 · 2021=23.8 · 2022=31.2 · 2023=20.6 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Sanborn falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #154 safest of 154 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Iowa.

Sanborn (102 employees, TCR 18.4) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sanborn
Sanborn (102 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sanborn has more employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers 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
2024 10.4 6.1 10 2 0
2023 20.6 11.2 21 1 0
2022 31.2 20.4 27 2 0
2021 23.8 14.3 15 5 0
2020 11.3 3.2 12 2 0
2019 12.8 2.8 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · IA · Sanborn

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 5 employers in Sanborn, 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 Southern States Hardin Coop 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Origination, LLC - Maplewood 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Two Rivers Terminal Moses Lake 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3315_6338 17.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Weitz Company - Shared Services Group 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Buresh Building Systems 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henningsen Const., Inc. 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Absolute Concrete Construction 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Associated Milk Producers Inc (Sanborn) 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie View Campus 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartog Elevator 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farmers Coop Society-Sanborn 34 FTE
NAT-TCR NHC Healthcare St. Charles 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0746 Raleigh 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0609 Millburn 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CJB Logistics 18.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE LA Outfall Tunnel 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belmont Village Sunnyvale 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Opal-Foods Roggen Farm 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crane Worldwide- Irving 102 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, 2019. 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.