Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing · Iowa

Cresco Food Technologies

Cresco, IA · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cresco Food Technologies runs at 311% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Cresco Food Technologies: 10.3 TCR = 311% of Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cresco Food Technologies safety composite

Cresco Food Technologies scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Cresco Food Technologies: 8.3 → 13.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2021

Cresco Food Technologies's TCR rose 4.7 from 8.3 in 2016 to 13.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Cresco, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 311% of ind

  • DART 13.0 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO Olam Spices
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Olam Spices (0.1 TCR gap)

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Cresco Food Technologies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cresco Food Technologies averages 10.3 TCR (311% of the Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cresco Food Technologies TCR series: 2016=8.3 · 2017=5.8 · 2020=13.9 · 2021=13 · BLS 3.3

Where Cresco Food Technologies falls in its industry

123 Fruit and vegetables, dehydrat establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cresco Food Technologies (56 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cresco Food Technologies
Cresco Food Technologies (56 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Cresco Food Technologies has fewer employees than the Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manuf median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 13.0 13.0 7 0 0
2020 13.9 12.2 8 0 0
2017 5.8 1.9 3 0 0
2016 8.3 4.2 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · IA · Cresco

123 Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 22 employers in Cresco, 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 Olam Spices 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aveka Nutra Processing 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milne MicroDried 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terrasoul Superfoods LLC 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Area Office 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rinderknecht Associates, Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Cities Engineering 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Featherlite, Inc. 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR Featherlite Trailers 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donaldson Filtration 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donaldson Company 257 FTE
NAT-TCR Hancock 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 257640-Pontiac Po 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Harborhill Place 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Mary Home 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elkay Manufacturing-Plumbing Ogden 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Arc of San Antonio,Inc 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE R & J Lorain 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dematic - Griffin 56 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, 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.