Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers · Iowa

SouthernCarlson - Grimes

Grimes, IA · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SouthernCarlson - Grimes runs at 112% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

SouthernCarlson - Grimes: 2.5 TCR = 112% of Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SouthernCarlson - Grimes safety composite

SouthernCarlson - Grimes scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Rising injury rate

SouthernCarlson - Grimes: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.96× in 2021

SouthernCarlson - Grimes's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Grimes, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 112% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO MNOWA
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MNOWA (0.0 TCR gap)

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SouthernCarlson - Grimes in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SouthernCarlson - Grimes averages 2.5 TCR (112% of the Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

SouthernCarlson - Grimes TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=5 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.8 · BLS 2.2

Where SouthernCarlson - Grimes falls in its industry

589 Industrial supplies (except di establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 7 Industrial supplies (except di employers in Iowa.

SouthernCarlson - Grimes (21 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate SouthernCarlson - Grimes
SouthernCarlson - Grimes (21 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

SouthernCarlson - Grimes has fewer employees than the Industrial supplies (except disposable p median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2021 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.0 5.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · IA · Grimes

589 Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 65 employers in Grimes, 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 MNOWA 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GT Midwest Corporate Division 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Dallas 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deckert 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Audubon Vet Clinic 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos South 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE K & B Ag Supply 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR National Carwash Solutions 698 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Office 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grimes - Main Store 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5748 315 FTE
NAT-TCR Azalea Gardens 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 101 Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 44351e - Tampa Zone 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kraft Heinz Company 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE IFS-CA-SoCal 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Gardens of Savannah 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lusco Corp 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westerville FS (SSS, CSS) 21 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.