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
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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.

Louisa County Plant: 5.4 TCR = 163% of Animal except Poultry Slaughtering BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Louisa County Plant safety composite

Louisa County Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.1

2017→2024

Louisa County Plant injury rate improved

Louisa County Plant's TCR fell 6.1 from 7.7 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.7 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=3.4 · 2022=11.7 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Columbus Junction, IA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 163% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #15/26
  • PHOTO Creekstone Farms Pre…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 184 inj
  • SIZE ~1,248 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Louisa County Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Louisa County Plant averages 5.4 TCR (163% of the Animal except Poultry Slaughtering BLS benchmark).

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

Louisa County Plant TCR series: 2017=7.7 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=3.4 · 2022=11.7 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Louisa County Plant falls in its industry

212 Animal except Poultry Slaughte establishments

Safer than 49% 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 #15 safest of 26 Animal except Poultry Slaughte employers in Iowa.

Louisa County Plant (1,248 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Louisa County Plant
Louisa County Plant (1,248 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Louisa County Plant has more employees than the Animal except Poultry Slaughtering median and a higher 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
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

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · IA · Columbus Junction

212 Animal except Poultry Slaughtering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 6 employers in Columbus Junction, 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 Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nicholas Meats 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sioux Center Harvest Plant 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBS Plainwell INC 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Davenport Works 1,247 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mary Greeley Medical Center 1,277 FTE
STATE-SIZE Luther College 1,279 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0590 - Cedar Falls IA DC 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI / TYSON FOODS INC. - COLUMBUS JUNCTION 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Louisa County Freezer 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSSI - 0057 Tyson Foods Inc. - Columbus Junction 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colonial Manor 59 FTE
NAT-TCR BR05 Vacaville 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR San Young Market 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Colorado TBC 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Simpsonville Medical Campus 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Instrumentation Laboratory 1,248 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Deere Horicon Works 1,248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trace3, LLC 1,248 FTE
NAT-SIZE IGHL 1,248 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.