Farm supply stores · Iowa

Theisen's of Ames

Ames, IA · ~70 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Theisen's of Ames runs at 219% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Theisen's of Ames: 7.4 TCR = 219% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Theisen's of Ames safety composite

Theisen's of Ames scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.7

2019→2023

Theisen's of Ames injury rate improved

Theisen's of Ames's TCR fell 3.7 from 6.3 in 2019 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.3 · 2020=11.6 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452319 · Ames, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 219% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #22/38
  • PHOTO 4186-04177
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4186-04177 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Theisen's of Ames in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Theisen's of Ames averages 7.4 TCR (219% of the Farm supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

Theisen's of Ames TCR series: 2019=6.3 · 2020=11.6 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Theisen's of Ames falls in its industry

1,513 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 38 Farm supply stores employers in Iowa.

Theisen's of Ames (70 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 24 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Theisen's of Ames
Theisen's of Ames (70 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 24 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Theisen's of Ames has more employees than the Farm supply stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2022 10.4 10.4 4 0 0
2021 6.3 6.3 3 0 0
2020 11.6 11.6 5 0 0
2019 6.3 6.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452319 · IA · Ames

1,513 Farm supply stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 170 employers in Ames, 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 4186-04177 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4186-08702 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4186-02238 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4186-03797 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Office 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE GCI Gladbrook 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkel Construction Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knutson Construction Midwest 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - University Wide 13,316 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISU - On Campus 12,527 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR 99-Southern Distribution Center 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dominos 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Built Brands LLC 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR California Metal-X 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE America's Thrift Store #13 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Upper Saint Clair 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main office 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE ASRC SKW Eskimos Inc. 70 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.