Animal except Poultry Slaughtering · Iowa
Louisa County Plant
Columbus Junction, IA · ~1,248 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 5.4
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Louisa County Plant runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal except Poultry Slaughtering workplace, earning a grade D.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 5.4
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 184
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Louisa County Plant's OSHA Total Case Rate of 5.4 to the Animal except Poultry Slaughtering BLS benchmark of 3.3 (163% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Louisa County Plant's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Louisa County Plant falls in its industry
216 Animal except Poultry Slaughte establishmentsSafer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.
Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 26 Animal except Poultry Slaughte employers in Iowa.
Trend analysis for Louisa County Plant
Between 2017 and 2024, Louisa County Plant's Total Case Rate improved from 7.7 to 1.6 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 80% decrease across 7 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 1.6, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 11.7, a spread of 10.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 7 reporting years, Louisa County Plant recorded 184 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 184 injuries, 292 illnesses shown on this page for Louisa County Plant are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 311611 - Animal except Poultry Slaughtering.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
8 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 2,818,748 hours worked = 0.57 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Louisa County Plant (this establishment) | 5.37 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg |
| Beef produced in slaughtering plants industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 311611 |
| Iowa state avg (all industries) | 5.33 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Louisa County Plant to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 22 reportable incidents · 11 injuries, 11 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 30 reportable incidents · 19 injuries, 11 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 141 reportable incidents · 14 injuries, 127 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 43 reportable incidents · 12 injuries, 31 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 45 reportable incidents · 23 injuries, 22 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 98 reportable incidents · 52 injuries, 46 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 97 reportable incidents · 53 injuries, 44 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 19 | 11 | 0 |
| 2022 | 11.7 | 10.7 | 14 | 127 | 0 |
| 2020 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 12 | 31 | 0 |
| 2019 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 23 | 22 | 0 |
| 2018 | 7.7 | 5.0 | 52 | 46 | 0 |
| 2017 | 7.7 | 5.5 | 53 | 44 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Louisa County Plant's reported OSHA injury record versus its Animal except Poultry Slaughtering peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 163% of the Animal except Poultry Slaughtering benchmark, Louisa County Plant reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Animal except Poultry Slaughtering sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.