Pig farming · Iowa

Oak View Farms LLC

Lawler, IA · ~223 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oak View Farms LLC runs at 291% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pig farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Oak View Farms LLC: 13.1 TCR = 291% of Pig farming BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oak View Farms LLC safety composite

Oak View Farms LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−1.4

2016→2024

Oak View Farms LLC injury rate improved

Oak View Farms LLC's TCR fell 1.4 from 9.6 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.6 · 2017=17.1 · 2018=17.6 · 2019=15.8 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=16.2 · 2022=15.1 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=8.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.1 · 291% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #26/40
  • PHOTO Viking Sow
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 329 inj
  • SIZE ~223 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Viking Sow (0.1 TCR gap)

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Oak View Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oak View Farms LLC averages 13.1 TCR (291% of the Pig farming BLS benchmark).

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

Oak View Farms LLC TCR series: 2016=9.6 · 2017=17.1 · 2018=17.6 · 2019=15.8 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=16.2 · 2022=15.1 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Oak View Farms LLC falls in its industry

280 Pig farming establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 40 Pig farming employers in Iowa.

Oak View Farms LLC (223 employees, TCR 13.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7 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 0100200300400 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Oak View Farms LLC
Oak View Farms LLC (223 employees, TCR 13.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7

Oak View Farms LLC has more employees than the Pig farming 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 8.2 5.3 14 0 0
2023 7.9 6.0 13 0 0
2022 15.1 11.6 54 1 0
2021 16.2 12.1 48 0 0
2020 10.5 8.5 29 2 0
2019 15.8 12.2 47 6 0
2018 17.6 11.9 52 1 0
2017 17.1 10.9 47 0 0
2016 9.6 8.8 25 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112210 · IA · Lawler

280 Pig 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Viking Sow 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lucasville Farm 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Fork Farms 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maxwell Foods Goldsboro Hog Farms 13.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dubuque Operations 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1625 223 FTE
STATE-SIZE C. J. Moyna & Sons, LLC 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Iowa Artificial Insemination Inc. 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwood Sow Unit 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Madison Facility 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dancer Logging, Inc. 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0123 Walnut Creek 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Disney Land Eat Ticket 13.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fun Sweets LLC 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aec Boe Ops 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marlton Supermarket Inc. 223 FTE
NAT-SIZE UNWRAPPEDINC 223 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.

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

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