Chicken egg production · Iowa

Centrum Valley Dows

Dows, IA · ~50 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Centrum Valley Dows runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chicken egg production workplace, earning a grade D.

Centrum Valley Dows: 7.9 TCR = 175% of Chicken egg production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Centrum Valley Dows safety composite

Centrum Valley Dows scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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 7.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Centrum Valley Dows: 4.5 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024

Centrum Valley Dows's TCR rose 3.0 from 4.5 in 2022 to 7.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112310 · Dows, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 175% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #25/36
  • PHOTO VALO BioMedia NA, LL…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm (0.0 TCR gap)

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Centrum Valley Dows in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Centrum Valley Dows averages 7.9 TCR (175% of the Chicken egg production BLS benchmark).

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

Centrum Valley Dows TCR series: 2022=4.5 · 2023=11.6 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Centrum Valley Dows falls in its industry

351 Chicken egg production establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #25 safest of 36 Chicken egg production employers in Iowa.

Centrum Valley Dows (50 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 Centrum Valley Dows
Centrum Valley Dows (50 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Centrum Valley Dows has fewer employees than the Chicken egg production median and a higher 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 7.5 7.5 5 0 0
2023 11.6 9.7 6 0 0
2022 4.5 1.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112310 · IA · Dows

351 Chicken egg production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm 88 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charles River Avian Roanoke 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bozrah 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux Jerseys, LLP 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEABOARD FOODS LP IOWA ADMIN 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brenneman Pork, LLLP 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Iowa Artificial Insemination Inc. 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centrum Valley Farms Dows 89 FTE
NAT-TCR SMF 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Villani Landshapers 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR RRSC Buffalo 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gandola Landscape & Lawn Care 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cs Snf LLC 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piedmont Plaster & Drywall 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Electric Supply Company LLC - Fairfield, CA 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Americold Logistics, LLC: Lakeville 50 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.