Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming · Iowa

Northwood Sow Unit

Name: Northwood Sow Unit Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lawler, IA · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.7
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Northwood Sow Unit runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Northwood Sow Unit: 9.7 TCR = 216% of Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwood Sow Unit safety composite

Northwood Sow Unit scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 9.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

Northwood Sow Unit: 5.4 → 14.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Northwood Sow Unit's TCR rose 8.7 from 5.4 in 2023 to 14.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112210 · Lawler, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 216% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #20/40
PHOTO Livingston Enterpris…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Livingston Enterprises Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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9.8
This site

9.7
Livingston Ent

9.7
Wilderness Vie

9.7
Schwartz Farms

9.6

What this shows Northwood Sow Unit averages 9.7 TCR (216% of the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS benchmark).

Northwood Sow Unit TCR series: 2023=5.4 · 2024=14 · BLS 4.5

Where Northwood Sow Unit falls in its industry

280 Hog and pig (including breedin establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 40 Hog and pig (including breedin employers in Iowa.

Northwood Sow Unit (24 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7

Northwood Sow Unit has fewer employees than the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.7. 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
2024	14.0	0.0	3	0	0
2023	5.4	0.0	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112210 · IA · Lawler

280 Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Lawler, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Livingston Enterprises Inc.	FAIRBURY, NE	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Wilderness View	FAIRBURY, NE	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Schwartz Farms Willow Creek NE	LEIGH, NE	9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ON	SLEEPY EYE, MN	9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Afton Warehouse	AFTON	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Belmond	BELMOND	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Clarion, IA	CLARION	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Eldora	ELDORA	24 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Oak View Farms LLC	Lawler	223 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC	Lawler	59 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northeast Iowa Artificial Insemination Inc.	Lawler	50 FTE
NAT-TCR	Aloft Syracuse Inner Harbor	Syracuse, NY	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Monarch Place	Hanceville, AL	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	East Los Angeles Doctors Hospital	Los Angeles, CA	9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Arden Courts of Largo	Largo, FL	9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	CBSI Hagerstown	Hagerstown, MD	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	New England Gypsum Manchester	Manchester, NH	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Karpp Boston	Boston, MA	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	United Columbus	Columbus, OH	24 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. 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.