Popcorn (except popped) manufacturing · Iowa

American Popcorn Company

Sioux City, IA · ~178 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Popcorn Company runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Popcorn (except popped) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

American Popcorn Company: 7.6 TCR = 185% of Popcorn (except popped) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Popcorn Company safety composite

American Popcorn Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

American Popcorn Company: 5.2 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2021

American Popcorn Company's TCR rose 3.8 from 5.2 in 2019 to 9.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Sioux City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 185% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #22/26
  • PHOTO 6962-SWY 0045 8273
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6962-SWY 0045 8273 (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Popcorn Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Popcorn Company averages 7.6 TCR (185% of the Popcorn (except popped) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Popcorn Company TCR series: 2019=5.2 · 2020=8.6 · 2021=9 · BLS 4.1

Where American Popcorn Company falls in its industry

335 Popcorn (except popped) manufa establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 26 Popcorn (except popped) manufa employers in Iowa.

American Popcorn Company (178 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate American Popcorn Company
American Popcorn Company (178 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

American Popcorn Company has more employees than the Popcorn (except popped) manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 6.6 15 0 0
2020 8.6 8.6 18 0 0
2019 5.2 4.7 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · IA · Sioux City

335 Popcorn (except popped) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux 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 6962-SWY 0045 8273 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dahlia Plant 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Johnsbury, Vermont 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northside Food Corporation 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silgan Containers Ft Dodge 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ankeny Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE MASON CITY IA - 3094 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1509 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR St Mary's d'Youville Pavilion 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-OK-007) 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Middle School 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sparton 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plant 3 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE redi-Group North America 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Building Products - Bristol 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Hampton Resources Inc. 178 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, 2020, 2019. 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.