Employer · Iowa

Spirit Lake Operating

Spirit Lake, IA · ~24 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spirit Lake Operating runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Spirit Lake Operating: 1.8 TCR = 148% of industry BLS 1.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spirit Lake Operating safety composite

Spirit Lake Operating scores strongest on dart rate (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)
C 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Spirit Lake Operating held a steady TCR band

Spirit Lake Operating's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221122 · Spirit Lake, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 1.8 · 148% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/64
  • PHOTO Panhandle Rural Elec…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Panhandle Rural Electric Membership Association (PREMA) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spirit Lake Operating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spirit Lake Operating averages 1.8 TCR (148% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Spirit Lake Operating TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 1.2

Where Spirit Lake Operating falls in its industry

2,958 industry establishments

Safer than 65% 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 #19 safest of 64 industry employers in Iowa.

Spirit Lake Operating (24 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Spirit Lake Operating
Spirit Lake Operating (24 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Spirit Lake Operating has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 10.3 10.3 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221122 · IA · Spirit Lake

2,958 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 23 employers in Spirit Lake, 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 Panhandle Rural Electric Membership Association (PREMA) 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midway Service Center 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Phenix City Crew Headquarters 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Croix Electric Cooperative 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Afton Warehouse 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwood Sow Unit 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belmond 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarion, IA 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Polaris Inc. Spirit Lake 460 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spirit Lake Facility 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakes Regional Healthcare 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure Fishing - Spirit Lake 307 FTE
NAT-TCR MBM-3 Santa Ana 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CBG, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR South 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CMC Rebar Columbia 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Industries of Orange County OC Boutique HB 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Industries of Orange County Center West 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 50087 - Capstone Unfi Sturtevant 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 50075 - Capstone Unfi Chesterfield 24 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, 2017. 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.