Denatured alcohol manufacturing · Iowa

Big River Resources, LLC

West Burlington, IA · ~24 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Big River Resources, LLC runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Big River Resources, LLC: 0.5 TCR = 15% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Big River Resources, LLC safety composite

Big River Resources, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Big River Resources, LLC held a steady TCR band

Big River Resources, LLC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · West Burlington, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/49
  • PHOTO Valero Renewable Fue…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC (dba Valero Linden Plant) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Big River Resources, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Big River Resources, LLC averages 0.5 TCR (15% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Big River Resources, LLC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=4 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Big River Resources, LLC falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 99% 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 #1 safest of 49 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in Iowa.

Big River Resources, LLC (24 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Big River Resources, LLC
Big River Resources, LLC (24 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Big River Resources, LLC has fewer employees than the Denatured alcohol manufacturing median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IA · West Burlington

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 37 employers in West Burlington, 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 Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC (dba Valero Linden Plant) 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Hartley Plant 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Equistar Chemicals 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guardian Energy LLC 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Afton Warehouse 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwood Sow Unit 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belmond 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarion, IA 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center-Main Hospital 1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 797 318 FTE
CITY-NEAR 797 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa, Inc. 198 FTE
NAT-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation Vandenberg AFB (3985) 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation Orlando Campus (1382) 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kodak Alaris Rochester NY 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Draeger, Inc. - Houston 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 28-Oct 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branch 08 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Equipment Co 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE MOSL8 24 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.