Chicken egg production · Iowa

Centrum Valley Farms West

Clarion, IA · ~49 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Centrum Valley Farms West runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chicken egg production workplace, earning a grade D.

Centrum Valley Farms West: 8.1 TCR = 180% of Chicken egg production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Centrum Valley Farms West safety composite

Centrum Valley Farms West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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 West: 3.4 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 22.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2021

Centrum Valley Farms West's TCR rose 0.4 from 3.4 in 2017 to 3.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 22.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.47× 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 8.1 · 180% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #29/36
  • PHOTO Bear Hollow Farms
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bear Hollow Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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Centrum Valley Farms West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Centrum Valley Farms West averages 8.1 TCR (180% 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 West TCR series: 2017=3.4 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=22.6 · 2021=3.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Centrum Valley Farms West falls in its industry

351 Chicken egg production establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #29 safest of 36 Chicken egg production employers in Iowa.

Centrum Valley Farms West (49 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 West
Centrum Valley Farms West (49 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Centrum Valley Farms West 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
2021 3.8 3.8 2 0 0
2020 22.6 22.6 7 7 0
2019 5.4 3.6 3 0 0
2018 5.3 5.3 3 0 0
2017 3.4 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112310 · IA · Clarion

351 Chicken egg production 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 Bear Hollow Farms 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lebanon 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Valley Eggs 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lone Cactus Egg Farm 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Marshalltown, IA 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE CIPCO - Cedar Rapids 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE D & B Agro-Systems, Ltd. 49 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 Main 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR SS-Liverpool CSC 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlas Putty Products Company 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NextGen Ops1-BK Planning 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Layer Site 6 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millard Sprinkler Inc 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Testing 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bamboo Pipeline Camarillo 49 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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