Chicken egg production · Iowa

Center Fresh Farm

Sioux Center, IA · ~144 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Center Fresh Farm runs at 64% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Chicken egg production workplace, earning a grade B.

Center Fresh Farm: 2.9 TCR = 64% of Chicken egg production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Center Fresh Farm safety composite

Center Fresh Farm scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Center Fresh Farm: 0.0 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

Center Fresh Farm's TCR rose 3.8 from 0.0 in 2022 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112310 · Sioux Center, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 64% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #5/36
  • PHOTO Giroux's Poultry Far…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Giroux's Poultry Farm, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Center Fresh Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Center Fresh Farm averages 2.9 TCR (64% of the Chicken egg production BLS benchmark).

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

Center Fresh Farm TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Center Fresh Farm falls in its industry

351 Chicken egg production establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 36 Chicken egg production employers in Iowa.

Center Fresh Farm (144 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Center Fresh Farm
Center Fresh Farm (144 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Center Fresh Farm has more employees than the Chicken egg production median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 3.8 2.1 7 0 0
2023 4.9 3.8 9 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112310 · IA · Sioux Center

351 Chicken egg production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 32 employers in Sioux Center, 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 Giroux's Poultry Farm, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoosier Pride Farms, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Opal-Foods Bird Moving Crew 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Donegal Egg 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Osage 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ranews Companies - Waterloo 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomaco Corporation Plant #1 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riceville 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Interstates/Harbor 1,090 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Sioux Center 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Sioux Center, IA 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats-LLC 453 FTE
NAT-TCR FedEx Supply Chain Philips Columbus 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilton Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Super Sagless 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Revenue Security Warehouse 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Altru Rehabilitation Hospital of Grand Forks an Affiliate of Encompass Health 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zpacks 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Koester Pavilion 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1829 144 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. 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.