Vegetable oils made in crushing mills · Iowa

Cargill Inc

Sioux City, IA · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Inc runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Vegetable oils made in crushing mills workplace, earning a grade C.

Cargill Inc: 3.0 TCR = 90% of Vegetable oils made in crushing mills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Inc safety composite

Cargill Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−3.6

2019→2023

Cargill Inc injury rate improved

Cargill Inc's TCR fell 3.6 from 5.6 in 2019 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.6 · 2021=1.3 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311224 · Sioux City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #11/32
  • PHOTO Destrehan OVC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Destrehan OVC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cargill Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Inc averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the Vegetable oils made in crushing mills BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Inc TCR series: 2019=5.6 · 2021=1.3 · 2023=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Cargill Inc falls in its industry

146 Vegetable oils made in crushin establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #11 safest of 32 Vegetable oils made in crushin employers in Iowa.

Cargill Inc (60 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Cargill Inc
Cargill Inc (60 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Cargill Inc has fewer employees than the Vegetable oils made in crushing mills 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 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2021 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 5.6 5.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311224 · IA · Sioux City

146 Vegetable oils made in crushing mills 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Destrehan OVC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hutchinson (PFI) 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ag Processing Inc - Emmetsburg 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond Oilseeds 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MAIN OFFICE 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Total Maintenance, Inc. 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan's Overhead Doors & More 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jebro Inc-Sioux City 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR KPC Promise Hospital of Baton Rouge 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpha Milling 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GA Foods_St Pete 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Garland Dirt Cheap 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Forest Growout (MLO) 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walsh Elementary School 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scherba Industries Inc. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dean E Norris Inc 60 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, 2021, 2019. 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.