Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants · Iowa

JBS

Ottumwa, IA · ~2,121 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

JBS runs at 37% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade A.

JBS: 1.2 TCR = 37% of Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JBS safety composite

JBS scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 55%), 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

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

JBS: 0.0 → 2.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2021

JBS's TCR rose 2.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 2.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Ottumwa, IA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 37% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #3/26
  • PHOTO Kansas City Sausage …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 98 inj
  • SIZE ~2,121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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JBS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JBS averages 1.2 TCR (37% of the Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

JBS TCR series: 2018=0 · 2021=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where JBS falls in its industry

212 Pork carcasses, half carcasses establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 26 Pork carcasses, half carcasses employers in Iowa.

JBS (2,121 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate JBS
JBS (2,121 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

JBS has more employees than the Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and prim median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2021 2.4 1.7 39 24 0
2018 0.0 0.0 59 34 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · IA · Ottumwa

212 Pork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 57 employers in Ottumwa, 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 Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MEAT PROCESSING 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ottumwa Bacon Swift Pork Company 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MercyOne-Genesis, East Hospital-MHS-IA/NE 2,129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winnebago Industries - Forest City 2,047 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mercy Hospital 2,197 FTE
STATE-SIZE TMC Transportation - Corporate 2,208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Works 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Ottumwa Works 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Regional Health Center 573 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winger Contracting Company 399 FTE
NAT-TCR Carol Stream PD2 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Airtron Dayton 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Carys Honey Farms, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rinker CAECP 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE BDMNNJ11 - AT&T Services, Inc. 2,121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Textron Aviation - East Campus (Beechcraft) 2,122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lithko Contracting, LLC 2,120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas/Fort Worth Airport Hub (Txdfa) 2,123 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: 2021, 2018. 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.