Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Iowa

Luana

Luana, IA · ~135 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Luana runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Luana: 8.3 TCR = 252% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Luana safety composite

Luana scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Luana: 6.1 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2019

Luana's TCR rose 1.4 from 6.1 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Luana, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 252% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Saputo Cheese USA In…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saputo Cheese USA Inc Belmont (0.0 TCR gap)

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Luana in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Luana averages 8.3 TCR (252% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Luana TCR series: 2016=6.1 · 2017=12.9 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Luana falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Iowa.

Luana (135 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Luana
Luana (135 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Luana has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2019 7.5 6.1 11 0 0
2018 6.8 2.0 3 7 0
2017 12.9 8.2 14 5 0
2016 6.1 4.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · IA · Luana

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Saputo Cheese USA Inc Belmont 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MICELI DAIRY PRODUCTS COMPANY 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maplebrook Farm Water Street 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freedom 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hahn Ready Mix Plant #32 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE GMT Corporation 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE O'Neal Manufacturing Services dba Iowa Laser Technology 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3730 Martin Luther King Jr Dr 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana 186 FTE
NAT-TCR Village of Arlington Heights 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Piramal Glass-USA INC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hargrove Warehouse 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dutchmen Plant 801 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE F. Christiana 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Consulate Health Care - Melbourne 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bay Wood Products Inc 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Novotec Recycling LLC 135 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.