Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing · Iowa

Dutchland Frozen Foods

Lester, IA · ~81 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dutchland Frozen Foods runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dutchland Frozen Foods: 9.6 TCR = 292% of Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dutchland Frozen Foods safety composite

Dutchland Frozen Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Dutchland Frozen Foods: 7.7 → 14.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2021

Dutchland Frozen Foods's TCR rose 6.9 from 7.7 in 2018 to 14.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Lester, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 292% of ind

  • DART 14.5 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Buona Vita Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Buona Vita Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dutchland Frozen Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dutchland Frozen Foods averages 9.6 TCR (292% of the Nationality specialty foods, frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dutchland Frozen Foods TCR series: 2018=7.7 · 2019=6.7 · 2021=14.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Dutchland Frozen Foods falls in its industry

274 Nationality specialty foods, f establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Nationality specialty foods, f employers in Iowa.

Dutchland Frozen Foods (81 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 05001,0001,500 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate Dutchland Frozen Foods
Dutchland Frozen Foods (81 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Dutchland Frozen Foods has fewer employees than the Nationality specialty foods, frozen, man median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 14.5 14.5 9 0 0
2019 6.7 6.7 4 0 0
2018 7.7 5.7 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · IA · Lester

274 Nationality specialty foods, 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 Buona Vita Inc 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Day Lee Food, Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Myojo USA 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverside Foods, Inc. 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Durant 1 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITC Midwest - Cedar Rapids 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ottumwa Generating Station 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works Maintenance / Streets 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dutchland Foods 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lester Feed & Grain 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Family Dollar (WC USX FVA) 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Home City Ice Company - Pittsburgh - 060 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Division Laundy 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Homeward Bound Medicine Lake 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Groendyke Transport - Hutchinson 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Travel Leaders Group- Plymouth 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winzeler Coupling and Ferrule 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Stanton 81 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.