Machines, office, merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Storm Lake

Storm Lake, IA · ~22 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Storm Lake runs at 487% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machines, office, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Storm Lake: 10.7 TCR = 487% of Machines, office, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Storm Lake safety composite

Storm Lake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Storm Lake: 0.0 → 26.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 26.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

Storm Lake's TCR rose 26.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 26.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423420 · Storm Lake, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 487% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO CA.SIMIV.5 - Ricoh U…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CA.SIMIV.5 - Ricoh Usa, Inc (0.2 TCR gap)

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Storm Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Storm Lake averages 10.7 TCR (487% of the Machines, office, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Storm Lake TCR series: 2016=0 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=11.2 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=26.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Storm Lake falls in its industry

416 Machines, office, merchant who establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Machines, office, merchant who employers in Iowa.

Storm Lake (22 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Storm Lake
Storm Lake (22 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Storm Lake has fewer employees than the Machines, office, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 26.3 5.3 5 0 0
2023 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 11.2 11.2 2 0 0
2021 11.3 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423420 · IA · Storm Lake

416 Machines, office, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 31 employers in Storm 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 CA.SIMIV.5 - Ricoh Usa, Inc 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Toshiba Business Solutions, Inc 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dex Imaging, Inc. - Greensboro 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dex Imaging, Inc. - Davie/Enterprise Accounts/Weston 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Storm Lake Plant 2,247 FTE
CITY-NEAR Storm Lake Turkey Plant 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buena Vista Regional Medical Center 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1526 273 FTE
NAT-TCR Penbay Quarry Hill 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR PAVCO Furniture, LLC 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hennig, Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Crisp Regional Nursing and Rehab 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE PlumbWorks 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hughes Exterminators 3017 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redwood Falls, MN-FND 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arrow Exterminators 5112 22 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, 2016. 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.