Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing · Iowa

North Plant

Fort Dodge, IA · ~100 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

North Plant runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

North Plant: 6.4 TCR = 164% of Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North Plant safety composite

North Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 Plant: 4.5 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2018

North Plant's TCR rose 3.8 from 4.5 in 2017 to 8.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Fort Dodge, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #40/62
  • PHOTO Main Street
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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North Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North Plant averages 6.4 TCR (164% of the Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

North Plant TCR series: 2017=4.5 · 2018=8.3 · BLS 3.9

Where North Plant falls in its industry

756 Bird feed, prepared, manufactu establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #40 safest of 62 Bird feed, prepared, manufactu employers in Iowa.

North Plant (100 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 North Plant
North Plant (100 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

North Plant has more employees than the Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing 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
2018 8.3 5.9 6 1 0
2017 4.5 3.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Fort Dodge

756 Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 75 employers in Fort Dodge, 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 Main Street 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Esbenshade Mills 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hubbard Feeds - Rapid City 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PSD Partners, LLC 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Weitz Company, LLC. - Mission Critical 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at ADM Clinton 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Star Concrete 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center 790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unity Point Trinity Regional Medical Center 648 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Terminal 539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fort Dodge Correctional Facility 452 FTE
NAT-TCR Penske : 4704-00 Cardinal/Waukegan, IL 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Greeley (Cogre) 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR West Branch Center (Miwbr) 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6091-SS027U 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE PIT - Airport United Airlines Offices 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wingate at Reading 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Imperial Dade Jacksonville 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE JIS at Kraton Polymers Belpre 100 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.