Egg production, chicken · Iowa

Centrum Valley Farms South

Clarion, IA · ~47 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Centrum Valley Farms South runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Egg production, chicken workplace, earning a grade D.

Centrum Valley Farms South: 8.0 TCR = 178% of Egg production, chicken BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Centrum Valley Farms South safety composite

Centrum Valley Farms South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 South: 1.9 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.07× in 2024

Centrum Valley Farms South's TCR rose 14.7 from 1.9 in 2017 to 16.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 16.6 DART
  • RANK #28/36
  • PHOTO Forsman Farms HL
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Forsman Farms HL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Centrum Valley Farms South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Centrum Valley Farms South averages 8.0 TCR (178% of the Egg production, chicken BLS benchmark).

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

Centrum Valley Farms South TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=9 · 2020=14.3 · 2021=4.7 · 2024=16.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Centrum Valley Farms South falls in its industry

351 Egg production, chicken establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #28 safest of 36 Egg production, chicken employers in Iowa.

Centrum Valley Farms South (47 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 South
Centrum Valley Farms South (47 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Centrum Valley Farms South has fewer employees than the Egg production, chicken 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 16.6 16.6 5 0 0
2021 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2020 14.3 12.9 7 3 0
2019 9.0 7.2 5 0 0
2018 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2017 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112310 · IA · Clarion

351 Egg production, chicken employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 15 employers in Clarion, 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 Forsman Farms HL 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lebanon 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Valley Eggs 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE DeJong Greenhouse LLC 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Des Moines Office 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goldfield 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4806-Urbandale, IA (Monsanto Co.) 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa Specialty Hospital Clarion 378 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hagie Manufacturing 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clarion Packaging 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clarion Wellness & Rehabilitation 72 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 019 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Logical Delivery LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 328 328SH 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Premium LVT 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tyler Development Corp 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hudson Creek Alz 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMERI-PAC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jurgens Park Senior Living 47 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.