Broth (except seafood) canning · Iowa

Essentia - Harlan

Harlan, IA · ~75 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essentia - Harlan runs at 358% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Broth (except seafood) canning workplace, earning a grade F.

Essentia - Harlan: 11.8 TCR = 358% of Broth (except seafood) canning BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essentia - Harlan safety composite

Essentia - Harlan scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−3.2

2018→2024

Essentia - Harlan injury rate improved

Essentia - Harlan's TCR fell 3.2 from 14.9 in 2018 to 11.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=14.9 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=15.2 · 2024=11.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311422 · Harlan, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.8 · 358% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK P3
  • PHOTO Faribault Foods, Inc…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Faribault Foods, Inc. - Arizona (0.1 TCR gap)

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Essentia - Harlan in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essentia - Harlan averages 11.8 TCR (358% of the Broth (except seafood) canning BLS benchmark).

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

Essentia - Harlan TCR series: 2018=14.9 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=15.2 · 2024=11.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Essentia - Harlan falls in its industry

67 Broth (except seafood) canning establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Essentia - Harlan (75 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essentia - Harlan
Essentia - Harlan (75 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 189 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Essentia - Harlan has fewer employees than the Broth (except seafood) canning 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
2024 11.7 6.5 9 0 0
2023 15.2 11.4 12 0 0
2022 9.8 9.8 8 0 0
2021 10.1 3.8 8 0 0
2020 7.6 7.6 6 0 0
2019 13.3 6.6 10 0 0
2018 14.9 12.0 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311422 · IA · Harlan

67 Broth (except seafood) canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 25 employers in Harlan, 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 Faribault Foods, Inc. - Arizona 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 224 Wilmot - Revision 03-29-19 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Juanita's Foods 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&G Foods NA Inc 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Winterset Egg Farm 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clearfield 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred Intl Inc Renwick Seed Production Facility 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caruth Construction Inc. 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Myrtue Medical Center 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monogram Prepared Meats LLC 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Engineering Company. Inc 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Engineering Co., Inc - Company Wide 125 FTE
NAT-TCR The Shores of Lake Phalen 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Randall Road Plant 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sterling Commons 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Color Craft Graphic Arts, LLC 11.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Edina 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legend of Hutchinson 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Golder Acoustics, Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE River Bend Hospital 75 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, 2018. 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.