Commercial Bakeries · Iowa

Dubuque Ia Plant

Dubuque, IA · ~150 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dubuque Ia Plant runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Commercial Bakeries workplace, earning a grade C.

Dubuque Ia Plant: 3.0 TCR = 90% of Commercial Bakeries BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dubuque Ia Plant safety composite

Dubuque Ia Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

Dubuque Ia Plant: 1.3 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2023

Dubuque Ia Plant's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.3 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Dubuque, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #1/14
  • PHOTO Flowers Baking Compa…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flowers Baking Company of Birmingham, AL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dubuque Ia Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dubuque Ia Plant averages 3.0 TCR (90% of the Commercial Bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Dubuque Ia Plant TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=4.6 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Dubuque Ia Plant falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial Bakeries establishments

Safer than 70% 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 #1 safest of 14 Commercial Bakeries employers in Iowa.

Dubuque Ia Plant (150 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Dubuque Ia Plant
Dubuque Ia Plant (150 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Dubuque Ia Plant has more employees than the Commercial Bakeries median and a lower 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
2023 2.6 1.3 4 0 0
2022 3.1 1.9 5 0 0
2020 4.6 2.6 7 0 0
2019 3.7 2.4 5 1 0
2018 2.7 2.7 3 1 0
2017 2.8 2.1 4 0 0
2016 1.3 0.0 0 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · IA · Dubuque

1,014 Commercial Bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, 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 Flowers Baking Company of Birmingham, AL 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARYZTA - Van Nuys 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ELMIRA NY DEPOT 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Frozen Foods 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Portzen Construction Inc. 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Printer Inc 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechdyne Corporation 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vizient Manufacturing Solutions, Inc. 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR George Koch Sons - Evansville 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mactac Columbus 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hotel EIN 91-0917126 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Holdrege Market Place 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Antonio Tx Plant 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salem-Commercial #020 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chico #025 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Idaho Falls #042 150 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: 2023, 2022, 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.