Chicken egg production · Iowa

Centrum Valley Farms Dows

Dows, IA · ~89 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Centrum Valley Farms Dows runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chicken egg production workplace, earning a grade D.

Centrum Valley Farms Dows: 7.4 TCR = 164% of Chicken egg production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Centrum Valley Farms Dows safety composite

Centrum Valley Farms Dows scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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 Farms Dows: 3.3 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.21× in 2021

Centrum Valley Farms Dows's TCR rose 3.0 from 3.3 in 2017 to 6.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.21× 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 7.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #22/36
  • PHOTO Herbruck's of Pennsy…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Herbruck's of Pennsylvania, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Centrum Valley Farms Dows in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Centrum Valley Farms Dows averages 7.4 TCR (164% 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 Farms Dows TCR series: 2017=3.3 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=11.1 · 2020=10.3 · 2021=6.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Centrum Valley Farms Dows falls in its industry

351 Chicken egg production establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #22 safest of 36 Chicken egg production employers in Iowa.

Centrum Valley Farms Dows (89 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 Farms Dows
Centrum Valley Farms Dows (89 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Centrum Valley Farms Dows has more 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
2021 6.3 1.6 4 0 0
2020 10.3 7.2 9 1 0
2019 11.1 10.1 12 0 0
2018 5.9 5.0 7 0 0
2017 3.3 2.5 4 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 Herbruck's of Pennsylvania, LLC 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trillium Farms Layer 5 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ICF Goldfield 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Day Farms - Croton 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE ICF Ovation 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muscatine Power & Water Power Plant 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Iowa Light and Power Cooperative 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE WRH, Inc. 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Centrum Valley Dows 50 FTE
NAT-TCR USA Kahului 865 W Mokuea Pl 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sun Basket 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Farm 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Roth'S - West Salem 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Bi Products North Redwood Falls 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Limbach - EPA 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vox Nutrition 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta Trans/BBU 89 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.