Meat Processed From Carcasses · Iowa

Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant

Council Bluffs, IA · ~1,486 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Meat Processed From Carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant: 8.3 TCR = 250% of Meat Processed From Carcasses BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant safety composite

Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant: 1.2 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 26.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.13× in 2024

Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant's TCR rose 0.4 from 1.2 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 26.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Council Bluffs, IA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 250% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #29/32
  • PHOTO GIO
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 123 inj
  • SIZE ~1,486 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GIO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant averages 8.3 TCR (250% of the Meat Processed From Carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2018=1.6 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=26.7 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=19.3 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant falls in its industry

613 Meat Processed From Carcasses establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

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 32 Meat Processed From Carcasses employers in Iowa.

Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant (1,486 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant
Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant (1,486 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant has more employees than the Meat Processed From Carcasses median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 1.6 1.1 10 9 0
2023 3.5 2.9 22 21 0
2022 19.3 18.9 30 254 0
2021 9.7 9.4 7 149 0
2020 26.7 26.3 9 401 0
2019 2.6 1.8 21 18 0
2018 1.6 1.2 11 14 0
2017 1.2 0.9 13 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IA · Council Bluffs

613 Meat Processed From Carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 165 employers in Council Bluffs, 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 GIO 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swaggerty's Sausage 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Godshall's Telford 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 304A 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center 1,492 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Deere Waterloo Works Product Engineering Center 1,508 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Ice Cream Plant 1,523 FTE
STATE-SIZE JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations 1,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR 61830022 JENNIE EDMUNDSON MEMORIAL HOSP 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6183-61830022 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs IA 742 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ameristar Casino and Hotel Council Bluffs 725 FTE
NAT-TCR Robert W Carlstrom Co Inc 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Desert Valley Hospital 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Al Packer's White Marsh Ford, LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Indy Post Road 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : PHX7 1,486 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Medical Center 1,486 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota Department of Transportation Metro District 1,485 FTE
NAT-SIZE SMG 1,487 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.