Soybean oil, crude, manufacturing · Iowa

Benson Hill Ingredients

Creston, IA · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Benson Hill Ingredients runs at 289% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soybean oil, crude, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Benson Hill Ingredients: 9.5 TCR = 289% of Soybean oil, crude, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Benson Hill Ingredients safety composite

Benson Hill Ingredients scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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 9.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.5

2022→2023

Benson Hill Ingredients injury rate improved

Benson Hill Ingredients's TCR fell 12.5 from 15.8 in 2022 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=15.8 · 2023=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311224 · Creston, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 289% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #29/32
  • PHOTO AG Processing Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AG Processing Inc (0.3 TCR gap)

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Benson Hill Ingredients in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Benson Hill Ingredients averages 9.5 TCR (289% of the Soybean oil, crude, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Benson Hill Ingredients TCR series: 2022=15.8 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Benson Hill Ingredients falls in its industry

146 Soybean oil, crude, manufactur establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 32 Soybean oil, crude, manufactur employers in Iowa.

Benson Hill Ingredients (59 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Benson Hill Ingredients
Benson Hill Ingredients (59 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Benson Hill Ingredients has fewer employees than the Soybean oil, crude, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2023 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2022 15.8 14.0 7 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311224 · IA · Creston

146 Soybean oil, crude, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 35 employers in Creston, 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 AG Processing Inc 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montana Specialty Mills Great Falls 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota Soybean Processors 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shell Rock Soy Processing, LLC 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Viafield 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMVC 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8393-Monsanto Muscatine 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Building Crafts, Inc. (GPRO Region) 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Townline 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greater Regional Health 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greater Regional Medical Center 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foundry 353 FTE
NAT-TCR Villas of Holly Brook - Bloomington Towanda 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest Transportation (CV) 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pomona Healthcare and Wellness Ctr LLC 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Littell Steel Company, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE HDPE 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE N.A. Manosh, Inc. 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Bragg NC 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belzona Global LLC 59 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, 2022. 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.