Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Iowa

Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen

Grinnell, IA · ~153 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen runs at 330% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade F.

Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen: 13.6 TCR = 330% of Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen safety composite

Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.04 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.2

2019→2024

Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen injury rate improved

Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen's TCR fell 4.2 from 17.1 in 2019 to 12.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 18.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=17.1 · 2020=18.4 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=10.8 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=12.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Grinnell, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.6 · 330% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO CFS NorCal - San Jose
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 117 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CFS NorCal - San Jose (0.1 TCR gap)

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Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen averages 13.6 TCR (330% of the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen TCR series: 2019=17.1 · 2020=18.4 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=10.8 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=12.9 · BLS 4.1

Where Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen falls in its industry

376 Prepared meals, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Prepared meals, perishable, pa employers in Iowa.

Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen (153 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen
Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen (153 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Mom's Meals Grinnell Kitchen has fewer employees than the Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 12.9 7.0 11 0 0
2023 9.4 7.7 11 0 0
2022 10.8 10.8 16 0 0
2021 12.6 9.6 21 0 0
2020 18.4 12.1 29 0 0
2019 17.1 3.4 29 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · IA · Grinnell

376 Prepared meals, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 40 employers in Grinnell, 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 CFS NorCal - San Jose 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mrs. Gerry's Kitchen, LLC 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blount Fine Foods 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Pasta Shop 13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE ORBIS Monticello 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sabre Towers and Poles/Sabre Communications 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Genesis Systems Group 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Equipment Accessories, Inc. 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co 786 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America : Grinnell Windows 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0403 - Windows-Grinnell 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America : Customer Experience US 357 FTE
NAT-TCR Enoven Industries, LLC 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Npv Operator LLC 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AZT013 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR First Inc. 2020 13.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spokane Industries 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colmac Coil Manufacturing, Inc. 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creative Foam - Fenway 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Symmco Inc. 153 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.