Herbicides manufacturing · Iowa

VDSCWC

Webster City, IA · ~584 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VDSCWC runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Herbicides manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

VDSCWC: 5.0 TCR = 151% of Herbicides manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VDSCWC safety composite

VDSCWC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−2.9

2022→2023

VDSCWC injury rate improved

VDSCWC's TCR fell 2.9 from 6.5 in 2022 to 3.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.5 · 2023=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 151% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Koppers Millington O…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~584 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Koppers Millington Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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VDSCWC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VDSCWC averages 5.0 TCR (151% of the Herbicides manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

VDSCWC TCR series: 2022=6.5 · 2023=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where VDSCWC falls in its industry

145 Herbicides manufacturing establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #8 safest of 11 Herbicides manufacturing employers in Iowa.

VDSCWC (584 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 VDSCWC
VDSCWC (584 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

VDSCWC 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
2023 3.5 3.1 16 1 0
2022 6.5 4.1 33 0 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 Koppers Millington Operations 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Drexel Chemical - Tunica 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TriEst Ag - Greenville, NC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cypress Street Plant 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Knoxville 583 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Collins Inc (Coralville IA) 582 FTE
STATE-SIZE Toledo Store 587 FTE
STATE-SIZE Karl Chevrolet, Inc. 580 FTE
CITY-NEAR Van Diest Supply Company Main Campus 607 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 Earle M Jorgensen Co 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Olson Carriers Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Republic Number One 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kitchen No. 324 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE KZ 584 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tropicana Laughlin Hotel & Casino 584 FTE
NAT-SIZE UPHS-Portage 584 FTE
NAT-SIZE MO Central - PLANO TX 584 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.