Grain merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Viafield - Elgin

Elgin, IA · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Viafield - Elgin runs at 350% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grain merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Viafield - Elgin: 7.7 TCR = 350% of Grain merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Viafield - Elgin safety composite

Viafield - Elgin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−3.5

2017→2023

Viafield - Elgin injury rate improved

Viafield - Elgin's TCR fell 3.5 from 10.4 in 2017 to 6.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.4 · 2018=3.2 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=12.2 · 2023=6.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424510 · Elgin, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 350% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #34/40
  • PHOTO Scoular St. Hilaire
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Scoular St. Hilaire (0.0 TCR gap)

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Viafield - Elgin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Viafield - Elgin averages 7.7 TCR (350% of the Grain merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Viafield - Elgin TCR series: 2017=10.4 · 2018=3.2 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=12.2 · 2023=6.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Viafield - Elgin falls in its industry

399 Grain merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 40 Grain merchant wholesalers employers in Iowa.

Viafield - Elgin (30 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 10203040506070 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Viafield - Elgin
Viafield - Elgin (30 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Viafield - Elgin has more employees than the Grain merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 6.8 3.4 2 0 0
2022 12.2 8.2 3 0 0
2021 5.8 5.8 2 0 0
2018 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 10.4 3.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424510 · IA · Elgin

399 Grain merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 3 employers in Elgin, 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 Scoular St. Hilaire 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTH IOWA COOPERATIVE- PORTLAND 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DEERFIELD AG SERVICES INC 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gavilon Grain - Hastings, NE 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Tank Coatings, Inc. 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Tanks Coatings, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Norwalk Transit District 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Medic 1 Ambulance 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 10439 Speedway (WO) 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 165/IND 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ronfeldt Manufacturing LLC d/b/a Ice Industries Ronfeldt 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Episcopal High School 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Better World Books - York 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Better World Books - Reno, NV 30 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, 2021, 2018, 2017. 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.