Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products · Iowa

Snack Express

Oskaloosa, IA · ~51 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Snack Express runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products workplace, earning a grade C.

Snack Express: 3.5 TCR = 103% of Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Snack Express safety composite

Snack Express scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−4.4

2018→2021

Snack Express injury rate improved

Snack Express's TCR fell 4.4 from 6.7 in 2018 to 2.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.7 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454210 · Oskaloosa, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 103% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #2/7
  • PHOTO Watermill Express - …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Watermill Express - Las Vegas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Snack Express in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Snack Express averages 3.5 TCR (103% of the Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products BLS benchmark).

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

Snack Express TCR series: 2018=6.7 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=2.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Snack Express falls in its industry

311 Vending machine merchandisers, establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 7 Vending machine merchandisers, employers in Iowa.

Snack Express (51 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 7.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Snack Express
Snack Express (51 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 7.1

Snack Express has more employees than the Vending machine merchandisers, sale of p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.1. 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
2021 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2020 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 6.7 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454210 · IA · Oskaloosa

311 Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 37 employers in Oskaloosa, 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 Watermill Express - Las Vegas 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4021-762600000 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt. Vernon Vending 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR West 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allendan Seed Company 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Truck Wash 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Marion Research MRN1 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRS OSI Gen Repair Svc Wind Plt 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Musco Sports Lighting, LLC / Corporate Office 625 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mahaska County Hospital 558 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mahaska County Hospital dba Mahaska Health Partnership 458 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Pennbright 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-30303) 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Nammo Pocal Inc. Scranton 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MIBUSG 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Climate Design 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE J.S.L. Building Restoration Group, Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE ICT Walnut Grove 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE An-Cor Industrial Plastics Inc 51 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: 2021, 2020, 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.