Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · Iowa

Fairbank Plant

Fairbank, IA · ~53 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fairbank Plant runs at 42% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Fairbank Plant: 1.4 TCR = 42% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fairbank Plant safety composite

Fairbank Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Fairbank Plant: 1.4 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2020

Fairbank Plant's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.4 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Fairbank, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 42% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #7/49
  • PHOTO Western Plains Energ…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Western Plains Energy, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fairbank Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fairbank Plant averages 1.4 TCR (42% of the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Fairbank Plant TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2017=1.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Fairbank Plant falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 49 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in Iowa.

Fairbank Plant (53 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fairbank Plant
Fairbank Plant (53 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Fairbank Plant has more employees than the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2020 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2019 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IA · Fairbank

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 5 employers in Fairbank, 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 Western Plains Energy, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iowa Falls Plant 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co LLLP 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arthur Plant 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Natural Beauty Growers, LLC - Boyden IA 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smith Fertilizer & Grain Co 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Streb Construction Co., Inc. 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caliber Concrete LLC 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR POET Bioprocessing Fairbank LLC 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairbank Fire Department 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairbank Aquatic Center 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Fairbank 16 FTE
NAT-TCR 3023 Lkq 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ECLI 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 38 Elmira 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR StarMark Cabinetry 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Emerson Automation Solutions Isolation Valves Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boral Resources- Oak Grove 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robotic Welded Parts 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE YARDCENTER 53 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.