Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · Iowa

Cargill Animal Nutrition

Name: Cargill Animal Nutrition Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Sioux City, IA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.3
Avg TCR: 3.9
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Cargill Animal Nutrition runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Cargill Animal Nutrition: 2.3 TCR = 58% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Animal Nutrition safety composite

Cargill Animal Nutrition scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% 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).

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

Cargill Animal Nutrition: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Cargill Animal Nutrition's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2023 to 4.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Sioux City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 58% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #14/62
PHOTO Milford Purina Feed …
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Milford Purina Feed Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.3
Milford Purina

2.3
Hartford Mill,

2.3
Cargill

2.3
THE CHIEF FEED

2.3

What this shows Cargill Animal Nutrition averages 2.3 TCR (58% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Cargill Animal Nutrition TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.9

Where Cargill Animal Nutrition falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 62 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Iowa.

Cargill Animal Nutrition (22 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cargill Animal Nutrition has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m median and a lower 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
2024	4.6	0.0	1	0	0
2023	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Sioux City

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Milford Purina Feed Mill	MILFORD, IN	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hartford Mill,grain,cstore,agr	HARTFORD, WI	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cargill	ABILENE, TX	2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	THE CHIEF FEED MILL -EST	ROSE HILL, NC	2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA	ANKENY	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr)	MOUNT AYR	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kevin D. Moellers	RIDGEWAY	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sheldon	SHELDON	22 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Seaboard Triumph Foods	Sioux City	2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SeaboardTriumph Foods	Sioux City	1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Luke's Regional Medical Center	Sioux City	1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp	Sioux City	691 FTE
NAT-TCR	Houston 10209	Houston, TX	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Orange City 10155	Orange City, FL	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Olympus Ranch	Murray, UT	2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Covenant Transport	Chattanooga, TN	2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Gerretsen Building Supply	Roseburg, OR	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	McGriff Tire Company	Cullman, AL	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Oaks at Evans	Evans, GA	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Chowchilla Water District	Chowchilla, CA	22 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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