food grade oil manufacturing · Iowa

AgCertain Boone, LLC

Boone, IA · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AgCertain Boone, LLC runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical food grade oil manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

AgCertain Boone, LLC: 6.6 TCR = 199% of food grade oil manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AgCertain Boone, LLC safety composite

AgCertain Boone, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−5.9

2023→2024

AgCertain Boone, LLC injury rate improved

AgCertain Boone, LLC's TCR fell 5.9 from 9.5 in 2023 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.5 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311225 · Boone, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 199% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO South Chicago Packin…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Chicago Packing LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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AgCertain Boone, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AgCertain Boone, LLC averages 6.6 TCR (199% of the food grade oil manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

AgCertain Boone, LLC TCR series: 2023=9.5 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where AgCertain Boone, LLC falls in its industry

86 food grade oil manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 food grade oil manufacturing employers in Iowa.

AgCertain Boone, LLC (39 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate AgCertain Boone, LLC
AgCertain Boone, LLC (39 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9

AgCertain Boone, LLC has fewer employees than the food grade oil manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2024 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2023 9.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311225 · IA · Boone

86 food grade oil manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 39 employers in Boone, 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 South Chicago Packing LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Foods - Albert Lea 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kearny 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Full-Fill Industries LLC 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GGDC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience: MRN1: Marion IA R&D 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electric Production 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Lake 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 3804 568 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boone County Hospital 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDS Global Boone 328 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1389 180 FTE
NAT-TCR Five Star Premier Residences of Pompano Beach 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mitchell Shelton Construction Co., Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR GM - Green Mountain 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar Crest Alz 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cincinnati Office 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE MyLand 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wintech 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE 950 Apollo Rd Eagan MN 39 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: 2024, 2023. 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.