Farm supply stores · Iowa

Theisen's of Newton

Newton, IA · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Theisen's of Newton runs at 248% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supply stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Theisen's of Newton: 8.4 TCR = 248% of Farm supply stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Theisen's of Newton safety composite

Theisen's of Newton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−0.7

2021→2023

Theisen's of Newton injury rate improved

Theisen's of Newton's TCR fell 0.7 from 8.4 in 2021 to 7.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=8.4 · 2022=9.0 · 2023=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 248% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #25/38
  • PHOTO 4186-00866
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4186-00866 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Theisen's of Newton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Theisen's of Newton averages 8.4 TCR (248% 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 Newton TCR series: 2021=8.4 · 2022=9 · 2023=7.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Theisen's of Newton falls in its industry

1,513 Farm supply stores establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #25 safest of 38 Farm supply stores employers in Iowa.

Theisen's of Newton (30 employees, TCR 8.4) 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 Newton
Theisen's of Newton (30 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 24 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Theisen's of Newton 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 7.8 7.8 2 0 0
2022 9.0 9.0 2 0 0
2021 8.4 8.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452319 · IA · Newton

1,513 Farm supply stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 55 employers in Newton, 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 4186-00866 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4186-01689 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4186-03155 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4186-03964 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR TPI Composites LLC IA 925 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newton Correctional Facility 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Progress Industries 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 748 229 FTE
NAT-TCR Progressive Stamping and Fabrication 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fessler Nursery Company 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Power House Plastering Inc 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ced - Greentech (5621) 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Turf Tec of W.N.Y. , Inc 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE enTouch Systems, Inc-Richmond 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE ProBuild Construction, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flowserve Beaumont Texas Pump Shop 30 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. 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.