Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · Iowa

Menlo Plant

Menlo, IA · ~54 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Menlo Plant runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Menlo Plant: 2.4 TCR = 74% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Menlo Plant safety composite

Menlo Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Menlo Plant held a steady TCR band

Menlo Plant's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.5 in 2016 to 1.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=1.5 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Menlo, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 74% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #19/49
  • PHOTO Glacial Lakes Energy…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Glacial Lakes Energy, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Menlo Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Menlo Plant averages 2.4 TCR (74% of the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Menlo Plant TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Menlo Plant falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 61% 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 #19 safest of 49 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in Iowa.

Menlo Plant (54 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Menlo Plant
Menlo Plant (54 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Menlo Plant has more employees than the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing median and a lower 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
2020 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2019 3.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.4 3.6 3 0 0
2016 1.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IA · Menlo

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, 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 Glacial Lakes Energy, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rochelle (RF) 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guardian Lima LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elite Octane LLC. 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Graettinger 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Service Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie Creek Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettendorf Service Center 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR AgHub Midwest, LLC 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Little Falls Public School District-Lincoln Elementary 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR BLCW 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tomahawk Downhole, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR KIK Custom Products 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Puratos Rancho Dominguez 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yamaha Golf Car Corporation 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buchi Brewery 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 54 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: 2020, 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.