Chicken egg production · Iowa

DBF Central Iowa

Eagle Grove, IA · ~154 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DBF Central Iowa runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chicken egg production workplace, earning a grade D.

DBF Central Iowa: 7.2 TCR = 160% of Chicken egg production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DBF Central Iowa safety composite

DBF Central Iowa scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2016→2021

DBF Central Iowa injury rate improved

DBF Central Iowa's TCR fell 2.3 from 7.0 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.0 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=10.4 · 2021=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 160% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #20/36
  • PHOTO Sunny Side Farms
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunny Side Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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DBF Central Iowa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DBF Central Iowa averages 7.2 TCR (160% of the Chicken egg production BLS benchmark).

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

DBF Central Iowa TCR series: 2016=7 · 2017=6.5 · 2018=10.4 · 2021=4.7 · BLS 4.5

Where DBF Central Iowa falls in its industry

351 Chicken egg production establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #20 safest of 36 Chicken egg production employers in Iowa.

DBF Central Iowa (154 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 DBF Central Iowa
DBF Central Iowa (154 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1

DBF Central Iowa 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
2021 4.7 2.1 4 5 0
2018 10.4 6.8 20 0 0
2017 6.5 6.0 14 0 0
2016 7.0 7.0 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Sunny Side Farms 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nature Pure Farm 1 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillandale Gettysburg, LP 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Egg Products 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walter Scott Energy Center 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE IA-01 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Group B 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holt Sales and Service, LLC 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6728-00030023-29 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Daybreak Foods, Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vincent 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Soy Plant 86 FTE
NAT-TCR Parkhurst 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ewing Location 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR S&X Elevator 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meijers (WC USX MEI) 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE McNaughten Pointe 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Martin's Country Market, LLC 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brighton Office 154 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.