423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

Sioux Center

Sioux Center, IA · ~125 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sioux Center runs at 411% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Sioux Center: 9.0 TCR = 411% of 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sioux Center safety composite

Sioux Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−9.3

2022→2024

Sioux Center injury rate improved

Sioux Center's TCR fell 9.3 from 15.6 in 2022 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=15.6 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Sioux Center, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 411% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #63/70
  • PHOTO BIRKEY'S FARM STORE,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BIRKEY'S FARM STORE, INC. - GIBSON CITY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sioux Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sioux Center averages 9.0 TCR (411% of the 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sioux Center TCR series: 2022=15.6 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Sioux Center falls in its industry

700 423820 Farm and Garden Machine establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #63 safest of 70 423820 Farm and Garden Machine employers in Iowa.

Sioux Center (125 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Sioux Center
Sioux Center (125 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Sioux Center has more employees than the 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equ median and a higher 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 6.3 2.1 9 0 0
2023 5.2 1.5 7 0 0
2022 15.6 8.5 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · IA · Sioux Center

700 423820 Farm and Garden Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 32 employers in Sioux Center, 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 BIRKEY'S FARM STORE, INC. - GIBSON CITY 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 05-Bingham Equipment Company - Buckeye, AZ 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turf Star, Inc.- Rancho Cordova 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mcdonough GA 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Western Engineering Co., Inc - Company Wide 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carl A. Nelson & Company 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Gyspum Fort Dodge 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE KPI Concepts- Plant #1 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Interstates/Harbor 1,090 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Sioux Center 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Sioux Center, IA 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats-LLC 453 FTE
NAT-TCR Rebello's Towing Service Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith Pump Company 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Pauls 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR FLOFORM Countertops A 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Youngstown 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Koch Acton INC 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper - Jackson Container 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denali Center 125 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. 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.