Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Iowa

Hull Facility - AGROPUR

Hull, IA · ~157 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hull Facility - AGROPUR runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hull Facility - AGROPUR: 4.5 TCR = 135% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hull Facility - AGROPUR safety composite

Hull Facility - AGROPUR scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−2.0

2016→2024

Hull Facility - AGROPUR injury rate improved

Hull Facility - AGROPUR's TCR fell 2.0 from 6.4 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.4 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Hull, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Manufacturing : Plym…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 64 inj
  • SIZE ~157 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Manufacturing : Plymouth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hull Facility - AGROPUR in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hull Facility - AGROPUR averages 4.5 TCR (135% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hull Facility - AGROPUR TCR series: 2016=6.4 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=4 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Hull Facility - AGROPUR falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Iowa.

Hull Facility - AGROPUR (157 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hull Facility - AGROPUR
Hull Facility - AGROPUR (157 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Hull Facility - AGROPUR has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 4.3 2.7 5 3 0
2023 4.8 4.3 9 0 0
2022 3.3 2.7 6 0 0
2021 4.0 2.9 7 0 0
2020 2.5 1.9 4 0 0
2019 4.1 3.5 7 0 0
2018 5.1 1.3 8 0 0
2017 5.6 2.5 9 0 0
2016 6.4 4.5 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · IA · Hull

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 7 employers in Hull, 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 Manufacturing : Plymouth 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MARATHON CHEESE (MEDFORD) 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitehall Specialties - Plant 1 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Emmi Roth USA-Platteville 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2512-Boone, IA (Monsanto Co.) 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Star Yeast Co. and Lesaffre Corp 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper Cedar Rapids Container 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE SPENCER IA - 3202 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hull Cooperative Association 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premier Estates 505 LLC 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR GAC 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pleasant Acres Care Center 43 FTE
NAT-TCR Memorial Hermann Cypress Hospital 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Monical's Pizza Paris 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market Muhlenberg 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Montana Medical Center 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE MKS Methuen 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huber Engineered Woods, LLC 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haren Construction Co., Inc. 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spang Crest Manor 157 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.