Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing · Iowa

HQ Mills

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~18 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HQ Mills runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

HQ Mills: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HQ Mills safety composite

HQ Mills scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

HQ Mills held a steady TCR band

HQ Mills's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.0 TCR.

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Cedar Rapids, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/62
  • PHOTO Mid-South Milling Co…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mid-South Milling Company, Inc/Headquarters (0.0 TCR gap)

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HQ Mills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HQ Mills averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HQ Mills TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.9

Where HQ Mills falls in its industry

756 Animal feeds, prepared (except establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 62 Animal feeds, prepared (except employers in Iowa.

HQ Mills (18 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HQ Mills
HQ Mills (18 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

HQ Mills has fewer employees than the Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and c median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Cedar Rapids

756 Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 466 employers in Cedar Rapids, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Mid-South Milling Company, Inc/Headquarters 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid South Milling Co., Inc - COMTRAN 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central States Enterprises 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vita Plus (Madison Office) 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatteras 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwest Pork 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Orange City OCY1 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE River City Stone 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE) 6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave 6,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRST EXPEDITED INC 3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Methodist Hospital 2,949 FTE
NAT-TCR Envision Printing, LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedar Bay Entertainment LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Health 7000 and 7200 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR One Federal Street 0.0 TCR

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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.