Chicken egg production · Iowa

Daybreak Foods, Inc.

Name: Daybreak Foods, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Eagle Grove, IA · ~167 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Daybreak Foods, Inc. runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chicken egg production workplace, earning a grade D.

Daybreak Foods, Inc.: 6.5 TCR = 145% of Chicken egg production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Daybreak Foods, Inc. safety composite

Daybreak Foods, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 6.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Daybreak Foods, Inc.: 5.5 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2020

Daybreak Foods, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.9 from 5.5 in 2019 to 7.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112310 · Eagle Grove, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 145% of ind

DART 7.5 DART
RANK #19/36
PHOTO Stuart Egg Farm
BOOK 2y book
INJ 24 inj
SIZE ~167 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stuart Egg Farm (0.0 TCR gap)

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Croton Pullet

6.6
This site

6.5
Stuart Egg Far

6.5
Goldfield

6.5
Pullet/Breeder

6.4

What this shows Daybreak Foods, Inc. averages 6.5 TCR (145% of the Chicken egg production BLS benchmark).

Daybreak Foods, Inc. TCR series: 2019=5.5 · 2020=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Daybreak Foods, Inc. falls in its industry

351 Chicken egg production establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 36 Chicken egg production employers in Iowa.

Daybreak Foods, Inc. (167 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Daybreak Foods, Inc. has more 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
2020	7.5	7.5	13	0	0
2019	5.5	2.5	11	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112310 · IA · Eagle Grove

351 Chicken egg production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 18 employers in Eagle Grove, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Stuart Egg Farm	STUART, IA	6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Goldfield	GOLDFIELD, IA	6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pullet/Breeder Facility	CLARKESVILLE, GA	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Croton Pullet 2	CROTON, OH	6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Klauer Manufacturing Company	DUBUQUE	167 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kooima Company LLC	ROCK VALLEY	167 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Evergreen Packaging	CEDAR RAPIDS	167 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Capital City Fruit, Inc.	NORWALK	167 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6728-00030023-29	Eagle Grove	270 FTE
CITY-NEAR	DBF Central Iowa	Eagle Grove	154 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Vincent	Eagle Grove	106 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Soy Plant	Eagle Grove	86 FTE
NAT-TCR	Dedicated - Family Dollar Duncan	Duncan, OK	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Frederick - MD	Frederick, MD	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Village Works	Chicopee, MA	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sxb 52	Robinson Twp, PA	6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Nobel Biocare Procera LLC	Mahwah, NJ	167 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Barton Supply	Aurora, CO	167 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Division #22	St. Louis, MO	167 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Community Health Professionals Inc.	Van Wert, OH	167 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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