Retail Sales · Iowa

United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2)

Creston, IA · ~15 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Retail Sales workplace, earning a grade C.

United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2): 4.8 TCR = 107% of Retail Sales BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) safety composite

United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2016→2022

United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) injury rate improved

United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2)'s TCR fell 0.4 from 5.3 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=7.0 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=4.7 · 2022=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111150 · Creston, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 107% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #6/11
  • PHOTO Atkinson
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atkinson (0.1 TCR gap)

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United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) averages 4.8 TCR (107% 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 (Creston #2) TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=7 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=4.7 · 2022=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) falls in its industry

33 Retail Sales establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #6 safest of 11 Retail Sales employers in Iowa.

United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) (15 employees, TCR 4.8) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 (Creston #2)
United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) (15 employees, TCR 4.8) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) has fewer 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 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2020 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2019 6.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 7.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 5.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111150 · IA · Creston

33 Retail Sales employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 35 employers in Creston, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Atkinson 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renk Seed Company 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beck's Marshalltown 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gee Asphalt Systems inc 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blending Facility 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quill Avenue 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Townline 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greater Regional Health 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greater Regional Medical Center 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foundry 353 FTE
NAT-TCR Metal Sales MC - Jefferson 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Harvest Sensations LLC OI3 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Genesis Baking Company 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Elkhart Main 4.8 TCR

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.