Cattle merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Waukon

Waukon, IA · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Waukon runs at 393% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cattle merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Waukon: 8.7 TCR = 393% of Cattle merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waukon safety composite

Waukon scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 8.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Waukon: 8.3 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2021

Waukon's TCR rose 0.7 from 8.3 in 2019 to 9.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424520 · Waukon, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 393% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK P59
  • PHOTO Equity Cooperative L…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales - Reedsville (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Iowa employers → · Look up another →

Waukon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waukon averages 8.7 TCR (393% of the Cattle merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Waukon TCR series: 2019=8.3 · 2021=9 · BLS 2.2

Where Waukon falls in its industry

44 Cattle merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Waukon (37 employees, TCR 8.7) among 27 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 9.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 28 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 050100150200250 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Waukon
Waukon (37 employees, TCR 8.7) among 27 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 27 employees and a TCR of 9.9

Waukon has more employees than the Cattle merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.9. 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 9.0 9.0 1 0 0
2019 8.3 8.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424520 · IA · Waukon

44 Cattle merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 19 employers in Waukon, 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 Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales - Reedsville 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR UPI-Columbia 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Stratford 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stratford 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rockwell City Warehouse 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux County Egg 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE OSI Gen Repair & Svc Wind Plt 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Lawrence (KS009) 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Veterans Memorial Hospital 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northgate Care Center 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reel Core Inc. 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 062 WAUKON 66 FTE
NAT-TCR Kirby Nagelhout Construction Co. Bend Office 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Freight Lines, Inc - Austin 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Guaynabo Recycling 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hydrant Repair Parts, Inc 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Almo Distributing Wisconsin, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE HHI 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marine Science Magnet School 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village Care 37 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, 2019. 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.