Pastries (e.g., Danish, French), frozen, manufacturing · Iowa

Dutchland Foods

Lester, IA · ~86 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dutchland Foods runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pastries (e.g., Danish, French), frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dutchland Foods: 5.8 TCR = 176% of Pastries (e.g., Danish, French), frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dutchland Foods safety composite

Dutchland Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.52 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

−1.3

2022→2024

Dutchland Foods injury rate improved

Dutchland Foods's TCR fell 1.3 from 8.2 in 2022 to 6.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.2 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=6.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311813 · Lester, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK P28
  • PHOTO Hadley Farms, Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hadley Farms, Inc (0.2 TCR gap)

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Dutchland Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dutchland Foods averages 5.8 TCR (176% of the Pastries (e.g., Danish, French), frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dutchland Foods TCR series: 2022=8.2 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Dutchland Foods falls in its industry

94 Pastries (e.g., Danish, French establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dutchland Foods (86 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 220 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dutchland Foods
Dutchland Foods (86 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 220 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Dutchland Foods has fewer employees than the Pastries (e.g., Danish, French), frozen, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2024 6.9 5.5 5 0 0
2023 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2022 8.2 8.2 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311813 · IA · Lester

94 Pastries (e.g., Danish, French), frozen, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 3 employers in Lester, 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 Hadley Farms, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atlanta Bakery Manufacturing 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sweet Sam's Baking Company 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR GRAND AVENUE 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hawkeye Paving Corp. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Academy Roofing and Sheet Metal of the Midwest Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hometown Plumbing & Heating 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lovewell Fencing, Inc. 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dutchland Frozen Foods 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lester Feed & Grain 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Avflight Grand Rapids Corporation 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR OG Thunderbird 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Yancey House 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gastineau Elementary 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hayden Industrial LLC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georgetown KY 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hsl 14, LLC 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harris Beverages LLC 86 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. 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.