Soybean flour and grits manufacturing · Iowa

Natural Products Inc.

Grinnell, IA · ~25 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Natural Products Inc. runs at 445% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soybean flour and grits manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Natural Products Inc.: 14.7 TCR = 445% of Soybean flour and grits manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Natural Products Inc. safety composite

Natural Products Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Natural Products Inc.: 4.3 → 15.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 74.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2023

Natural Products Inc.'s TCR rose 11.2 from 4.3 in 2017 to 15.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 74.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311224 · Grinnell, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.7 · 445% of ind

  • DART 15.5 DART
  • RANK #32/32
  • PHOTO House Foods America …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: House Foods America Coorporation (2.1 TCR gap)

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Natural Products Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Natural Products Inc. averages 14.7 TCR (445% of the Soybean flour and grits manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Natural Products Inc. TCR series: 2017=4.3 · 2018=12.7 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=25.3 · 2021=21.7 · 2022=74.8 · 2023=15.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Natural Products Inc. falls in its industry

146 Soybean flour and grits manufa establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 32 Soybean flour and grits manufa employers in Iowa.

Natural Products Inc. (25 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 Natural Products Inc.
Natural Products Inc. (25 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Natural Products Inc. has fewer employees than the Soybean flour and grits manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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
2023 15.5 15.5 1 0 0
2022 74.8 68.0 4 7 0
2021 21.7 10.8 6 0 0
2020 25.3 16.9 3 3 0
2019 8.6 4.3 2 0 0
2018 12.7 12.7 3 0 0
2017 4.3 4.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311224 · IA · Grinnell

146 Soybean flour and grits manufacturing 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 House Foods America Coorporation 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Artois Ranch 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Artois-Mill 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Artois Production 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WCT-Crystal Lake 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oskaloosa Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consumers Energy 25 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 6962-SWY-0025-0025-01661 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-01448 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR San Juan 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Estates at Excelsior 14.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Groendyke Transport - El Paso 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE JLL HP Corvallis 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regency Excavation LLC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE HME Construction, Inc. 25 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.