Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming · Iowa

Cactus Family Farms

Osceola, IA · ~90 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cactus Family Farms runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Cactus Family Farms: 7.6 TCR = 170% of Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cactus Family Farms safety composite

Cactus Family Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

−1.7

2016→2023

Cactus Family Farms injury rate improved

Cactus Family Farms's TCR fell 1.7 from 7.1 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 20.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.1 · 2018=20.4 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=16.6 · 2023=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112210 · Osceola, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 170% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #18/40
  • PHOTO Mt Echo
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 67 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mt Echo (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cactus Family Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cactus Family Farms averages 7.6 TCR (170% of the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS benchmark).

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

Cactus Family Farms TCR series: 2016=7.1 · 2018=20.4 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=1.7 · 2022=16.6 · 2023=5.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Cactus Family Farms falls in its industry

280 Hog and pig (including breedin establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.7.

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 40 Hog and pig (including breedin employers in Iowa.

Cactus Family Farms (90 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7 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 0100200300400 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Cactus Family Farms
Cactus Family Farms (90 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7

Cactus Family Farms has more employees than the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.7. 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 5.4 1.8 3 0 0
2022 16.6 8.3 8 2 0
2021 1.7 0.0 0 1 0
2020 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 20.4 16.4 36 0 0
2016 7.1 2.3 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112210 · IA · Osceola

280 Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 25 employers in Osceola, 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 Mt Echo 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deer Run 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kodiak Pork 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Illinois 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Urbandale South 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wyckoff Heating & Cooling 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graettinger 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest HQ 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osceola Food, LLC. 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oscecola Food, LLC 893 FTE
CITY-NEAR Osceola 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hormel Osceola WHS 188 FTE
NAT-TCR Atascadero Pet Hospital and Emergency Center 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Schein - FLFTL 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mt. Olympus Enterprises Inc 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Municipality 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lexington Embassy Suites (UK Coldstream) 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotwire Communications - Tucker 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #1510 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #2905 90 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.