Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming · Iowa

Corning Sow Farm

Nodaway, IA · ~22 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Corning Sow Farm runs at 417% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Corning Sow Farm: 18.8 TCR = 417% of Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Corning Sow Farm safety composite

Corning Sow Farm scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Corning Sow Farm: 11.5 → 15.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 28.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Corning Sow Farm's TCR rose 3.7 from 11.5 in 2016 to 15.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 28.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112210 · Nodaway, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.8 · 417% of ind

  • DART 11.4 DART
  • RANK #35/40
  • PHOTO LDC.FAR
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LDC.FAR (0.2 TCR gap)

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Corning Sow Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Corning Sow Farm averages 18.8 TCR (417% of the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS benchmark).

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

Corning Sow Farm TCR series: 2016=11.5 · 2017=28.6 · 2018=9.9 · 2019=27.2 · 2020=23.6 · 2021=16.1 · 2022=15.5 · 2023=21.1 · 2024=15.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Corning Sow Farm falls in its industry

280 Hog and pig (including breedin establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 40 Hog and pig (including breedin employers in Iowa.

Corning Sow Farm (22 employees, TCR 18.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7 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 0100200300400 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Corning Sow Farm
Corning Sow Farm (22 employees, TCR 18.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7

Corning Sow Farm has fewer employees than the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.7. 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 15.3 11.4 4 0 0
2023 21.1 21.1 6 0 0
2022 15.5 11.6 4 0 0
2021 16.1 12.0 4 0 0
2020 23.6 15.7 6 0 0
2019 27.2 17.0 8 0 0
2018 9.9 6.6 3 0 0
2017 28.6 28.6 7 1 0
2016 11.5 7.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112210 · IA · Nodaway

280 Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming 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 LDC.FAR 18.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Salt River 18.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spartanwood LLC 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridge View 19.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Seaver Industrial Finishing 18.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0610 Clifton 18.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Falls Run Nursing & Rehab. 18.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0038 Redondo Bch 18.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE L'Anse Manufacturing, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Psp Industries/Monotech of Mississippi 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE HCC-INDIANAPOLIS 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Broken Bow 22 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.