General warehousing and storage · Iowa

Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer

Spencer, IA · ~38 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General warehousing and storage workplace, earning a grade D.

Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer: 7.3 TCR = 126% of General warehousing and storage BLS 5.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer safety composite

Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer: 9.8 → 15.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2024

Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer's TCR rose 5.2 from 9.8 in 2018 to 15.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Spencer, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 126% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #84/102
  • PHOTO CAFOA - SCS JURUPA D…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CAFOA - SCS JURUPA DISTRIBUTION CENTER - 11546 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer averages 7.3 TCR (126% of the General warehousing and storage BLS benchmark).

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

Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer TCR series: 2018=9.8 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=5.2 · 2023=12.3 · 2024=15.1 · BLS 5.8

Where Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer falls in its industry

9,477 General warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #84 safest of 102 General warehousing and storag employers in Iowa.

Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer (38 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer
Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer (38 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Southshore Enterprises Inc - Spencer has fewer employees than the General warehousing and storage 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 15.1 10.8 7 0 0
2023 12.3 12.3 6 0 0
2022 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2021 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2020 2.7 2.7 1 0 0
2019 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2018 9.8 3.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · IA · Spencer

9,477 General warehousing and storage employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 44 employers in Spencer, 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 CAFOA - SCS JURUPA DISTRIBUTION CENTER - 11546 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WSI-Jupiter Rd 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - HIO9 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ODS Warehouse East 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2050-Clarion, IA 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waukon Feed Ranch Agronomy Center 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Production 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rognes Corp 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnold Motor Supply 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spencer Hospital 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spencer Municipal Hospital 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2714 221 FTE
NAT-TCR Richland JMS 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Butler Creek Elementary 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pezz Electrical Services 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Runnings of Rapid City 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unique Metal Works, LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lahey Lynnfield 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE TBG Office 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rapid Production Tooling 38 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.