Retail Sales · Iowa

United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak)

Red Oak, IA · ~69 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Sales workplace, earning a grade D.

United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak): 5.5 TCR = 121% of Retail Sales BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) safety composite

United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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 (Red Oak): 4.2 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.31× in 2022

United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak)'s TCR rose 0.8 from 4.2 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111150 · Red Oak, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 121% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Renk Seed Company
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Renk Seed Company (0.3 TCR gap)

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United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) averages 5.5 TCR (121% 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 (Red Oak) TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=11.1 · 2020=1.6 · 2022=5.1 · BLS 4.5

Where United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) falls in its industry

33 Retail Sales establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #7 safest of 11 Retail Sales employers in Iowa.

United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) (69 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 (Red Oak)
United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) (69 employees, TCR 5.5) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) 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 5.1 1.7 3 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2019 11.1 4.7 7 0 0
2018 5.3 2.7 4 0 0
2017 5.5 2.7 4 0 0
2016 4.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111150 · IA · Red Oak

33 Retail Sales employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 23 employers in Red Oak, 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 Renk Seed Company 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atkinson 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Summit Farms, LLC 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Linn County Rural Electric Cooperative 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE 175 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Life Science - Council Bluffs 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Johnson Controls Inc 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montgomery County Memorial Hospital 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fluid Connectors : Red Oak 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fres-co System USA, Inc 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Oak - Main Store 91 FTE
NAT-TCR Wikau - Appleton 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vibra Hospital of Boise, LLC d/b/a Vibra Hospital of Boise 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Vibra Hospital of Richmond, LLC d/b/a Vibra Hospital of Richmond 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HG738 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE GoodFibers, LLC 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Romulus Mi 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE KAG West 52050 Tacoma 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSSI - 0211 Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. - Milan 69 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.