Pesticide and Fertilizer Manufacturing · Iowa

The Scotts Company - Fort Madison

Fort Madison, IA · ~325 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Scotts Company - Fort Madison runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pesticide and Fertilizer Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

The Scotts Company - Fort Madison: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Pesticide and Fertilizer Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Scotts Company - Fort Madison safety composite

The Scotts Company - Fort Madison scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−1.1

2018→2024

The Scotts Company - Fort Madison injury rate improved

The Scotts Company - Fort Madison's TCR fell 1.1 from 1.4 in 2018 to 0.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.4 · 2019=1.0 · 2020=1.0 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=1.0 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Fort Madison, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P94
  • PHOTO New Earth San Antonio
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~325 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Earth San Antonio (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Scotts Company - Fort Madison in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Scotts Company - Fort Madison averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Pesticide and Fertilizer Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

The Scotts Company - Fort Madison TCR series: 2018=1.4 · 2019=1 · 2020=1 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=1 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=0.3 · BLS 3.3

Where The Scotts Company - Fort Madison falls in its industry

163 Pesticide and Fertilizer Manuf establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
The Scotts Company - Fort Madison (325 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 The Scotts Company - Fort Madison
The Scotts Company - Fort Madison (325 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

The Scotts Company - Fort Madison has more employees than the Pesticide and Fertilizer Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 0.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2022 1.0 0.7 2 1 0
2021 0.7 0.5 3 0 0
2020 1.0 0.5 4 0 0
2019 1.0 0.3 2 1 0
2018 1.4 0.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · IA · Fort Madison

163 Pesticide and Fertilizer Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 32 employers in Fort Madison, 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 New Earth San Antonio 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Scotts Company - Wright City 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Scotts Company - Huntsville 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Agronomics 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Packaging Corporation 325 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Collins (Decorah IA) 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE Washington County Hospital and Clinics 324 FTE
STATE-SIZE Den Hartog Industries 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Madison, IA 554 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa State Penitentiary 486 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Madison Community Hospital 428 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Madison Plant 148 FTE
NAT-TCR Doug Holmes Construction, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DGI Communications, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ICS Industrial Commercial Systems office 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Acero Prime Feralloy Sinton Processing Center, Locn #1114 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE GEOTEK 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milwaukee Catholic Home 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Florida International Terminal LLC 325 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henry Clever Center 325 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.