Soybean oil mills · Iowa

Cargill Iowa Falls

Iowa Falls, IA · ~90 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Iowa Falls runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Soybean oil mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Cargill Iowa Falls: 5.0 TCR = 150% of Soybean oil mills BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Iowa Falls safety composite

Cargill Iowa Falls scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 Iowa Falls: 5.0 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2024

Cargill Iowa Falls's TCR rose 2.9 from 5.0 in 2021 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311224 · Iowa Falls, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 150% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #23/32
  • PHOTO Planters Cotton Oil …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Planters Cotton Oil Mill Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cargill Iowa Falls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Iowa Falls averages 5.0 TCR (150% of the Soybean oil mills BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Iowa Falls TCR series: 2021=5 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Cargill Iowa Falls falls in its industry

146 Soybean oil mills establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #23 safest of 32 Soybean oil mills employers in Iowa.

Cargill Iowa Falls (90 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Iowa Falls
Cargill Iowa Falls (90 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Cargill Iowa Falls has more employees than the Soybean oil 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
2024 8.0 7.0 7 1 0
2023 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2021 5.0 3.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311224 · IA · Iowa Falls

146 Soybean oil mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 27 employers in Iowa Falls, 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 Planters Cotton Oil Mill Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corto Olive 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Cedar Rapids East 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AGP Manning 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cactus Family Farms 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Urbandale South 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wyckoff Heating & Cooling 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graettinger 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scenic Living Communities Inc 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1546 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1546 97 FTE
NAT-TCR Panhandle Milling Hereford 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nourison Industries 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR FreeBird - West Facility 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - SDF8 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Progress Printing Company 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Campus Surgery Center 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oaks at Avon 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clearwater Center 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: 2024, 2023, 2021. 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.