Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing · Iowa

Ankeny, IA

Ankeny, IA · ~35 workers · 4 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

Ankeny, IA runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ankeny, IA: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ankeny, IA safety composite

Ankeny, IA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Ankeny, IA: 3.0 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

Ankeny, IA's TCR rose 3.9 from 3.0 in 2021 to 6.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Ankeny, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #9/15
  • PHOTO Vollrath Company LLC…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vollrath Company LLC, Kiel (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ankeny, IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ankeny, IA averages 5.7 TCR (173% of the Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ankeny, IA TCR series: 2021=3 · 2022=10.6 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Ankeny, IA falls in its industry

215 Meat grinders, food-type, manu establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 15 Meat grinders, food-type, manu employers in Iowa.

Ankeny, IA (35 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ankeny, IA
Ankeny, IA (35 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Ankeny, IA has fewer employees than the Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 6.9 4.6 3 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2022 10.6 5.3 4 0 0
2021 3.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · IA · Ankeny

215 Meat grinders, food-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 141 employers in Ankeny, 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 Vollrath Company LLC, Kiel 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Modesto Dairy Solutions 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chappell Hill Sausage Company 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anco Rendering Equipment, LLC 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE IA17-SEL-OSCEOLA HATCHERY' 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience - Algona Research - ALG2 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at ADM Cedar Rapids 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE On Track Construction, LLC 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Des Moines Works 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Works 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR PDI 859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baker Group 617 FTE
NAT-TCR Chinook Lumber 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Belleair Country Club 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brooklyn Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tonawanda SC 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mathews Brothers Hermon 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARC Electric Company of Indian Trail 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Attica Ace Hardware 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Argo Construction Corporation 35 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, 2022, 2021. 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.