Eggs, processed, manufacturing · Iowa

Estherville Foods Inc

Estherville, IA · ~87 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Estherville Foods Inc runs at 328% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Eggs, processed, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Estherville Foods Inc: 13.4 TCR = 328% of Eggs, processed, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Estherville Foods Inc safety composite

Estherville Foods Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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 13.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Estherville Foods Inc: 11.0 → 15.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 15.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2020

Estherville Foods Inc's TCR rose 4.9 from 11.0 in 2016 to 15.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Estherville, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.4 · 328% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #24/26
  • PHOTO Snappy Popcorn
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Snappy Popcorn (0.2 TCR gap)

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Estherville Foods Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Estherville Foods Inc averages 13.4 TCR (328% of the Eggs, processed, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Estherville Foods Inc TCR series: 2016=11 · 2020=15.9 · BLS 4.1

Where Estherville Foods Inc falls in its industry

335 Eggs, processed, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 26 Eggs, processed, manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Estherville Foods Inc (87 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 Estherville Foods Inc
Estherville Foods Inc (87 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Estherville Foods Inc has fewer employees than the Eggs, processed, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2020 15.9 8.8 14 4 0
2016 11.0 8.2 10 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · IA · Estherville

335 Eggs, processed, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 17 employers in Estherville, 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 Snappy Popcorn 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0045-0045-08225 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denali Ingredients Inclusions 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lifestyle Foods, Inc 14.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Croell Concrete Paving Crews East 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Munson Electric 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mason City Branch 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rousselot - Dubuque 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Holy Family Hospital 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Armstrong Wheels - Estherville 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Redwood Farms Meat Processors 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moveero Estherville Iowa 114 FTE
NAT-TCR North 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Depoe Bay - Resort 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sharp Rees-Stealy-GEN 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wendell Foster 13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alexandria MW LLC - Manufacturing 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage of Green Hills 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Motor Carrier Service LLC 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Interface Communications 87 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: 2020, 2016. 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.