Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · Iowa

Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill

Alden, IA · ~19 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill: 6.6 TCR = 168% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill safety composite

Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill: 0.0 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2024

Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill's TCR rose 7.3 from 0.0 in 2021 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Alden, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 168% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #44/62
  • PHOTO Gold Star Feed and G…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gold Star Feed and Grain, LLC Adams Center NY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill averages 6.6 TCR (168% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=5 · 2023=13.9 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 3.9

Where Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 62 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Iowa.

Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill (19 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill
Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill (19 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 7.3 3.7 2 0 0
2023 13.9 9.3 3 0 0
2022 5.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Alden

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Gold Star Feed and Grain, LLC Adams Center NY 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alltech Eden 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Form A Feed New Richmond 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH15 Soybean Growth Chamber Building 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power Cooperative 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE main 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summit Farms, LLC 120 FTE
NAT-TCR Village At Proprietors Green 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Robert Gibb & Sons, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Elk River Municipal Utilities 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR LUMBERCRAFT 6.6 TCR

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. 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.