Ice cream manufacturing · Iowa

Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods)

Dunkirk, IA · ~620 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) runs at 222% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ice cream manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods): 7.3 TCR = 222% of Ice cream manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) safety composite

Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−1.9

2019→2024

Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) injury rate improved

Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods)'s TCR fell 1.9 from 8.2 in 2019 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.2 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=7.6 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=8.0 · 2024=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311520 · Dunkirk, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 222% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK P26
  • PHOTO Gifford's Dairy, Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 167 inj
  • SIZE ~620 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gifford's Dairy, Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) averages 7.3 TCR (222% of the Ice cream manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) TCR series: 2019=8.2 · 2020=8.4 · 2021=7.6 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=8 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) falls in its industry

111 Ice cream manufacturing establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) (620 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods)
Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) (620 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods) has more employees than the Ice cream manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 6.2 5.2 10 8 0
2023 8.0 5.7 21 4 0
2022 5.5 4.2 21 17 0
2021 7.6 5.6 44 13 0
2020 8.4 5.8 42 19 0
2019 8.2 6.5 29 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311520 · IA · Dunkirk

111 Ice cream manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Gifford's Dairy, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA ICE CREAM - BELVIDERE IL 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR So Delicious Dairy Free 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Friendlys - Wilbraham 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE ChildServe Center 621 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Medical and Classification Center 618 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baker Group 617 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sukup Sheffield Manufacturing Facility 623 FTE
NAT-TCR Runnings of Rapid City 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Road Machinery and Supplies (East Moline) 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1004-12 GoJet STL Inflight 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Corry Rubber Corporation 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Human Services Agency 620 FTE
NAT-SIZE ConMed Corporation 620 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ecology Auto Parts 620 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mariposa County 620 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.