Retail Sales · Iowa

United Farmers Cooperative (Afton)

Afton, IA · ~49 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Sales workplace, earning a grade C.

United Farmers Cooperative (Afton): 4.1 TCR = 91% of Retail Sales BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) safety composite

United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

United Farmers Cooperative (Afton): 3.7 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2022

United Farmers Cooperative (Afton)'s TCR rose 2.9 from 3.7 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111150 · Afton, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.1 · 91% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #4/11
  • PHOTO Beck's Marshalltown
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beck's Marshalltown (0.1 TCR gap)

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United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) averages 4.1 TCR (91% of the Retail Sales BLS benchmark).

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

United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) TCR series: 2016=3.7 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=1.7 · 2022=6.6 · BLS 4.5

Where United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) falls in its industry

33 Retail Sales establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 11 Retail Sales employers in Iowa.

United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) (49 employees, TCR 4.1) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 23 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate United Farmers Cooperative (Afton)
United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) (49 employees, TCR 4.1) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) has more employees than the Retail Sales median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2022 6.6 4.4 3 0 0
2020 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2019 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2018 5.7 0.0 3 0 0
2017 5.3 1.8 3 0 0
2016 3.7 1.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111150 · IA · Afton

33 Retail Sales employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Afton, 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 Beck's Marshalltown 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sea Mist Farms 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kreher Enterprises LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Marshalltown, IA 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms West 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIPCO - Cedar Rapids 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE D & B Agro-Systems, Ltd. 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Refurb / Afton 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Afton 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Afton Warehouse 24 FTE
NAT-TCR 55600 OCTA Irvine 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HG073 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 101 East Avenue 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2904-SAS-OK 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Royal White Cement 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG652 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goldring Gulf Distributing Company - Panama City 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Holdings 49 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.