Herbicides manufacturing · Iowa

Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus

Webster City, IA · ~607 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Herbicides manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus: 6.2 TCR = 186% of Herbicides manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus safety composite

Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−1.8

2016→2021

Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus injury rate improved

Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus's TCR fell 1.8 from 7.2 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325320 · Webster City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 186% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #11/11
  • PHOTO Sterling Internation…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 137 inj
  • SIZE ~607 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sterling International Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus averages 6.2 TCR (186% of the Herbicides manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2018=7.4 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=5.6 · 2021=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus falls in its industry

145 Herbicides manufacturing establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

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

Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus (607 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus
Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus (607 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus has more employees than the Herbicides manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2021 5.4 4.5 28 0 0
2020 5.6 5.0 25 4 0
2019 5.1 3.2 23 4 0
2018 7.4 5.3 31 3 0
2016 7.2 5.8 30 12 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325320 · IA · Webster City

145 Herbicides manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 23 employers in Webster City, 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 Sterling International Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nufarm Chicago Heights SXL 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3rd Street Plant 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR IBC Manufacturing 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility 608 FTE
STATE-SIZE 182413-DES MOINES NDC 611 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Manufacturing Corporation 612 FTE
STATE-SIZE VTI Architectural Wood Products Holstein 601 FTE
CITY-NEAR VDSCWC 584 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary Ann's Specialty Foods 301 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vantec Inc. Webster City 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vantec LLC 142 FTE
NAT-TCR ASC Operations 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Woodwork of Nashville, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vollrath Company LLC, Menomonee Falls 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lithia Cdjrf of Eureka 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Great Southwest Construction 607 FTE
NAT-SIZE West-Ward Cherry Hill 607 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monterey Mushrooms Inc 607 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airborn, Inc. (Georgetown) 607 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.