Alfalfa meal, dehydrated, manufacturing · Iowa

Kalona

Kalona, IA · ~23 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kalona runs at 278% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Alfalfa meal, dehydrated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kalona: 10.8 TCR = 278% of Alfalfa meal, dehydrated, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kalona safety composite

Kalona scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kalona: 6.7 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 14.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2021

Kalona's TCR rose 5.8 from 6.7 in 2017 to 12.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Kalona, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 278% of ind

  • DART 12.5 DART
  • RANK #55/62
  • PHOTO Kent Nutrition Group…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kent Nutrition Group- Richford (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kalona in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kalona averages 10.8 TCR (278% of the Alfalfa meal, dehydrated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kalona TCR series: 2017=6.7 · 2018=10.4 · 2019=9.8 · 2020=14.9 · 2021=12.5 · BLS 3.9

Where Kalona falls in its industry

756 Alfalfa meal, dehydrated, manu establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #55 safest of 62 Alfalfa meal, dehydrated, manu employers in Iowa.

Kalona (23 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Kalona
Kalona (23 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kalona has fewer employees than the Alfalfa meal, dehydrated, manufacturing median and a higher 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
2021 12.5 12.5 3 0 0
2020 14.9 14.9 4 0 0
2019 9.8 9.8 3 0 0
2018 10.4 7.8 4 0 0
2017 6.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Kalona

756 Alfalfa meal, dehydrated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 12 employers in Kalona, 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 Kent Nutrition Group- Richford 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-State Milling Inc Main 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trouw Nutrition Neosho 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hope Feed Mill 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pleasantview Home 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pleasantview 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Engineered Plastic Components INC 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR CIVCO Medical Solutions - Manufacturing 115 FTE
NAT-TCR CCSF, PW, Bureau of Street & Sewer Repair 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR HG321 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ShuBee 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Husky Products, Inc. - a div. of Corr-Fac Corp 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 281 Southwest 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE OR-Exley RC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edwards Concrete 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITL- Odessa 23 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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