Ice cream manufacturing · Iowa

North Ice Cream Plant

Le Mars, IA · ~366 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

North Ice Cream Plant runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ice cream manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

North Ice Cream Plant: 3.5 TCR = 105% of Ice cream manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North Ice Cream Plant safety composite

North Ice Cream Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

North Ice Cream Plant: 2.5 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024

North Ice Cream Plant's TCR rose 1.3 from 2.5 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311520 · Le Mars, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK P66
  • PHOTO Tamaqua Plant
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~366 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tamaqua Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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North Ice Cream Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North Ice Cream Plant averages 3.5 TCR (105% of the Ice cream manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

North Ice Cream Plant TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=5 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where North Ice Cream Plant falls in its industry

111 Ice cream manufacturing establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
North Ice Cream Plant (366 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate North Ice Cream Plant
North Ice Cream Plant (366 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8

North Ice Cream Plant has more employees than the Ice cream manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 3.9 3.3 7 6 0
2023 2.7 2.3 7 0 0
2022 3.4 2.8 4 7 0
2021 1.4 1.1 2 3 0
2020 5.8 4.1 12 9 0
2019 3.3 2.8 7 5 0
2018 5.0 2.5 14 6 0
2017 3.1 1.8 10 2 0
2016 2.5 1.5 5 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311520 · IA · Le Mars

111 Ice cream manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 43 employers in Le Mars, 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 Tamaqua Plant 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pierre's Ice Cream Company, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mayfield - Birmingham IC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR THLP CO, LLC Searcy 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cambrex Charles City, Inc. 366 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 559 366 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH62 Crick 367 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orange City Area Health System 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Ice Cream Plant 1,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center- Headquarter Employees 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Ice Cream Freezer 397 FTE
NAT-TCR Brock - Milford 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rocky Mountain Instrument Co 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gage Pattern & Model, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lounsbury Excavating Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Retrodome 366 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southeast Power Corporation 366 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grant Prideco Navasota 366 FTE
NAT-SIZE Makino Mason 366 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, 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.