Meat canning (except baby, pet food, poultry), made from purchased carcasses · Iowa

Armour

Ft Madison, IA · ~484 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Armour runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Meat canning (except baby, pet food, poultry), made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade C.

Armour: 3.0 TCR = 91% of Meat canning (except baby, pet food, poultry), made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Armour safety composite

Armour scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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%).

Armour held a steady TCR band

Armour's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.3 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Ft Madison, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 91% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #18/32
  • PHOTO WASHINGTON CH
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~484 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WASHINGTON CH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Armour in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Armour averages 3.0 TCR (91% of the Meat canning (except baby, pet food, poultry), made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Armour TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=2.2 · 2018=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Armour falls in its industry

613 Meat canning (except baby, pet establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 32 Meat canning (except baby, pet employers in Iowa.

Armour (484 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Armour
Armour (484 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Armour has more employees than the Meat canning (except baby, pet food, pou median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2018 3.5 1.9 13 3 0
2017 2.2 1.1 8 2 0
2016 3.3 1.3 7 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IA · Ft Madison

613 Meat canning (except baby, pet food, poultry), made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 WASHINGTON CH 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colorado Premium 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sadler's Smokehouse 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pella Corporation Carroll Site 485 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wallace Building 483 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH60 Franklin 486 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nestle Purina PetCare 486 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bagcraft - Fort Madison 99 FTE
NAT-TCR American Swedish Institute 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lunseth Plumbing & Heating 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Senior Aerospace Connecticut 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Biron Mill 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE MaineGeneral Medical Center - Thayer Campus 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE Garden Park Medical Center 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter Hotel 484 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oncor ESB 484 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.