Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation · Iowa

Belle Plaine

Belle Plaine, IA · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Belle Plaine runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation workplace, earning a grade C.

Belle Plaine: 4.3 TCR = 95% of Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Belle Plaine safety composite

Belle Plaine scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Belle Plaine: 2.8 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Belle Plaine's TCR rose 2.3 from 2.8 in 2021 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Belle Plaine, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 95% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #41/44
  • PHOTO Douglas Fruit Company
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Douglas Fruit Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Belle Plaine in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Belle Plaine averages 4.3 TCR (95% of the Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation BLS benchmark).

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

Belle Plaine TCR series: 2021=2.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Belle Plaine falls in its industry

666 Seed processing, post-harvest establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 44 Seed processing, post-harvest employers in Iowa.

Belle Plaine (34 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Belle Plaine
Belle Plaine (34 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Belle Plaine has fewer employees than the Seed processing, post-harvest for propag median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 5.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 9.3 9.3 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · IA · Belle Plaine

666 Seed processing, post-harvest for propagation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Belle Plaine, 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 Douglas Fruit Company 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bloomington 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olympic Fruit 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saticoy Lemon Association - Oxnard 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE BP Land, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2511-Beaman, IA 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE KR Farm Labor Services, LLC 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Util. Field Office 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belle Plaine Specialty Care 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kelly Plastics 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR 180765-BELLE PLAINE PO 15 FTE
NAT-TCR Campbell Inc. Press Repair 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pulaski County Fiscal Court 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Packaging Co., Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockford Ball Screw 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Excelsior Fire District 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crestron Electronics - Euless, TX 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Professional Ski Instructors of America 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harold R Henrich Inc. 34 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.