Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming · Iowa

GSC Agribusiness

Carroll, IA · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GSC Agribusiness runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming workplace, earning a grade A.

GSC Agribusiness: 1.4 TCR = 31% of Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GSC Agribusiness safety composite

GSC Agribusiness scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−2.8

2017→2018

GSC Agribusiness injury rate improved

GSC Agribusiness's TCR fell 2.8 from 2.8 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.8 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112210 · Carroll, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 31% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/40
  • PHOTO Pillen Family Farms
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pillen Family Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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GSC Agribusiness in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GSC Agribusiness averages 1.4 TCR (31% of the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS benchmark).

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

GSC Agribusiness TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=0 · BLS 4.5

Where GSC Agribusiness falls in its industry

280 Hog and pig (including breedin establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 40 Hog and pig (including breedin employers in Iowa.

GSC Agribusiness (32 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7 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 0100200300400 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate GSC Agribusiness
GSC Agribusiness (32 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7

GSC Agribusiness has more employees than the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.7. 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
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112210 · IA · Carroll

280 Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 42 employers in Carroll, 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 Pillen Family Farms 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PFYF FINISHER & TRANS-EST 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schwartz Farms SE Misc MN 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stateline View 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nursery Department- Fuss Office 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley North 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Washington 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington Gen Station 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Core-Mark Iowa 732 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pella Corporation - Carroll Operations 653 FTE
CITY-NEAR Core-Mark Midcontinent, Inc. dba Farner-Bocken 498 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pella Corporation Carroll Site 485 FTE
NAT-TCR United Refrigeration, Inc. (#60) 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nestle Waters North America Allentown West (ALP) 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR KTL 53016 Rockford 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR VIC-HCT-VICTORIA 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mass 061 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texhoma Truss LLC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burlington 021 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston (W95) 32 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.