Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses · Iowa

Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners

Burlington, IA · ~170 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade D.

Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners: 4.4 TCR = 134% of Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners safety composite

Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

−2.7

2023→2024

Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners injury rate improved

Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners's TCR fell 2.7 from 5.8 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.8 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Burlington, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 134% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #25/32
  • PHOTO Catelli Brothers Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~170 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Catelli Brothers Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners averages 4.4 TCR (134% of the Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners TCR series: 2023=5.8 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners falls in its industry

613 Meats (except poultry), cured establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 32 Meats (except poultry), cured employers in Iowa.

Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners (170 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners
Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners (170 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hawkeye Smokehouse Partners has fewer employees than the Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 3.1 2.5 5 0 0
2023 5.8 5.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IA · Burlington

613 Meats (except poultry), cured or smoked, made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 68 employers in Burlington, 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 Catelli Brothers Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Mark Salem 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olympia Processing, LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skylark Meats 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Hedrick HED1 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodruff Construction, Inc 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE DFA FLUID - LEMARS IA - LINCOLN ST 170 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterloo Plant 170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods - BUR 727 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shearer's Foods Burlington 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal-Mogul Ignition Company Burlington Iowa Plant 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR CNH_Burlington 576 FTE
NAT-TCR Millersburg Equipment & Machine, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6331 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR UConn Health Center 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 8561 Burlington Wa 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wilbert Plastics Services 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Star Exhibits 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Fire & Security 170 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kiel 170 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.