Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Iowa

Grinnell Kitchen

Grinnell, IA · ~119 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.2
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grinnell Kitchen runs at 443% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade F.

Grinnell Kitchen: 18.2 TCR = 443% of Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grinnell Kitchen safety composite

Grinnell Kitchen scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Grinnell Kitchen: 14.5 → 21.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 21.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2018

Grinnell Kitchen's TCR rose 7.3 from 14.5 in 2016 to 21.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Grinnell, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 18.2 · 443% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Fresh N Lean - CA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fresh N Lean - CA (0.1 TCR gap)

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Grinnell Kitchen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grinnell Kitchen averages 18.2 TCR (443% of the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

Grinnell Kitchen TCR series: 2016=14.5 · 2018=21.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Grinnell Kitchen falls in its industry

376 Prepared meals, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

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 6 Prepared meals, perishable, pa employers in Iowa.

Grinnell Kitchen (119 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Grinnell Kitchen
Grinnell Kitchen (119 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Grinnell Kitchen has fewer employees than the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2018 21.8 8.8 31 1 0
2016 14.5 5.5 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · IA · Grinnell

376 Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 40 employers in Grinnell, 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 Fresh N Lean - CA 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HelloFresh CA (Distribution Center) 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Support Center 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pershing 17.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux City Service Center 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper Waterloo Container 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP Technologies, Iowa 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE TrafFix Devices, Inc. Fairfield 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America : Grinnell Windows 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0403 - Windows-Grinnell 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America : Customer Experience US 357 FTE
NAT-TCR COMPOSITES_SACRAMENTO_CA 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR TSMM Management LLC dba Primrose of Casper 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Tree & Shrub Care, LLC 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Carmichael Oaks 18.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Upf Wi 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0024 0069 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-Swy 0024 0029 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yakima (Wayak) 119 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: 2018, 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.