Employer · Iowa

Dubuque Pet Food

Dubuque, IA · ~312 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dubuque Pet Food runs at 234% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Dubuque Pet Food: 9.1 TCR = 234% of industry BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dubuque Pet Food safety composite

Dubuque Pet Food scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−7.1

2021→2023

Dubuque Pet Food injury rate improved

Dubuque Pet Food's TCR fell 7.1 from 14.3 in 2021 to 7.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=14.3 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 234% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO AFB International- A…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~312 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AFB International- Aurora (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dubuque Pet Food in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dubuque Pet Food averages 9.1 TCR (234% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Dubuque Pet Food TCR series: 2021=14.3 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=7.3 · BLS 3.9

Where Dubuque Pet Food falls in its industry

302 industry establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 industry employers in Iowa.

Dubuque Pet Food (312 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Dubuque Pet Food
Dubuque Pet Food (312 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Dubuque Pet Food has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 7.3 4.3 19 3 0
2022 5.8 4.6 19 1 0
2021 14.3 11.2 17 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · IA · Dubuque

302 industry 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 AFB International- Aurora 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Three Dog Bakery - Deramus 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverstone 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gold Star Feed and Grain, LLC Springville NY 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Collins Engine Nozzles Inc (West Des Moines IA 811) 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Hospital 312 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ryan & Associates 311 FTE
STATE-SIZE Raining Rose 313 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 Stop & Shop 100557 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Busch Gardens (BGT) 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR United Ambulance Service 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mountain Valley of Cascadia 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Providence Rest 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE G3 Boats 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE DeVilbiss Healthcare 312 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kirtland, NM 312 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, 2021. 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.