Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing · Iowa

Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant

Eddyville, IA · ~118 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant: 5.7 TCR = 174% of Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant safety composite

Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant held a steady TCR band

Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant's TCR held near 0.2 from 5.8 in 2016 to 5.6 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 5.8 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.8 · 2017=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325199 · Eddyville, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 174% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #17/17
  • PHOTO Hero BX - Alabama
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hero BX - Alabama (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant averages 5.7 TCR (174% of the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2017=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant falls in its industry

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manu establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 17 Natural nonfood coloring, manu employers in Iowa.

Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant (118 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant
Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant (118 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Ajinomoto North America Inc - Eddyville Plant has more employees than the Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2017 5.6 1.6 3 4 0
2016 5.8 5.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325199 · IA · Eddyville

552 Natural nonfood coloring, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 14 employers in Eddyville, 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 Hero BX - Alabama 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CRI Tolling 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keaau 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cyalume Specialty Products - Bound Brook Site 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cramer and Associates 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry MUIA 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gregory Design and Manufacturing 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE SmithCo, Inc. 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill Eddyville 549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cargill Eddyville Iowa 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition North America, Inc. 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR 100110000205-CRG-CARGILL/EDDYVILLE/IA 139 FTE
NAT-TCR Jacksonville - MB 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Covington (Lacov) 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Schaffner Manufacturing Co., Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Oldham Street 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of St Charles LLC 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Springfield East LLC 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trig's Everest Metro 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jessicas Brick Oven 118 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: 2017, 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.