Denatured alcohol manufacturing · Iowa

Little Sioux Corn Processors

Marcus, IA · ~56 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Little Sioux Corn Processors runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Little Sioux Corn Processors: 3.5 TCR = 106% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Little Sioux Corn Processors safety composite

Little Sioux Corn Processors scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Little Sioux Corn Processors: 1.8 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2024

Little Sioux Corn Processors's TCR rose 2.3 from 1.8 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Marcus, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 106% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #29/49
  • PHOTO POET Biorefining, LL…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning (0.0 TCR gap)

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Little Sioux Corn Processors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Little Sioux Corn Processors averages 3.5 TCR (106% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Little Sioux Corn Processors TCR series: 2016=1.8 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=3.3 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Little Sioux Corn Processors falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 49 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in Iowa.

Little Sioux Corn Processors (56 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Little Sioux Corn Processors
Little Sioux Corn Processors (56 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Little Sioux Corn Processors has more employees than the Denatured alcohol manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 4.1 2.7 3 0 0
2023 3.9 2.6 3 0 0
2022 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 6.8 2.7 5 0 0
2019 3.3 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2016 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IA · Marcus

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Marcus, 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 POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Renewable Energy 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR KAAPA Ethanol, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Indiana Ethanol, LLC 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Area Office 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rinderknecht Associates, Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Cities Engineering 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kent Nutrtion Group- Sheldon 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Staples promotional products - Marcus, IA 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR SPP - Marcus 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marcus 19 FTE
NAT-TCR La Encantada #555 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulf Copper Ship Repair 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shumate Mechanical LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewis Transport, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Florida TPL 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Tree 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advantage Tank Lines 20316 - Rockford 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE CB 56 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, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.