Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production · Iowa

Beck's Marshalltown

Marshalltown, IA · ~33 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Beck's Marshalltown runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production workplace, earning a grade C.

Beck's Marshalltown: 4.2 TCR = 93% of Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Beck's Marshalltown safety composite

Beck's Marshalltown scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−9.7

2016→2023

Beck's Marshalltown injury rate improved

Beck's Marshalltown's TCR fell 9.7 from 9.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.7 · 2018=2.9 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111150 · Marshalltown, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.2 · 93% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO United Farmers Coope…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Beck's Marshalltown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Beck's Marshalltown averages 4.2 TCR (93% of the Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Beck's Marshalltown TCR series: 2016=9.7 · 2018=2.9 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Beck's Marshalltown falls in its industry

33 Corn farming (except sweet cor establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 11 Corn farming (except sweet cor employers in Iowa.

Beck's Marshalltown (33 employees, TCR 4.2) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 23 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Beck's Marshalltown
Beck's Marshalltown (33 employees, TCR 4.2) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Beck's Marshalltown has fewer employees than the Corn farming (except sweet corn), field median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.9 2.9 0 1 0
2016 9.7 9.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111150 · IA · Marshalltown

33 Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 67 employers in Marshalltown, 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 United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sea Mist Farms 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atkinson 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IA Hatchery & Logistics 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE East-Central Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keokuk Contractors LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sewer 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Swift Pork Company 2,350 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS Marshalltown 2,231 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa Veterans Home 1,067 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lennox Residential Marshalltown 755 FTE
NAT-TCR Finelite, Union City 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Isometric Micro Molding, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Arkansas Plant 1 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR K&S Wire 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Helapan, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE St Clair Cleaners, Inc 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill CFL - N Melb 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sacramento Pocket Grocery Outlet 33 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: 2023, 2018, 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.