Beverages, milk based (except dietary), manufacturing · Iowa

Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery

Wellman, IA · ~30 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery runs at 535% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, milk based (except dietary), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery: 17.6 TCR = 535% of Beverages, milk based (except dietary), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery safety composite

Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−11.4

2016→2024

Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery injury rate improved

Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery's TCR fell 11.4 from 14.3 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 39.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.3 · 2017=28.5 · 2018=25.6 · 2020=10.0 · 2021=39.7 · 2022=15.7 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Wellman, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 535% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK P0
  • PHOTO Upstate Niagara Coop…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo (0.1 TCR gap)

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Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery averages 17.6 TCR (535% of the Beverages, milk based (except dietary), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery TCR series: 2016=14.3 · 2017=28.5 · 2018=25.6 · 2020=10 · 2021=39.7 · 2022=15.7 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery falls in its industry

457 Beverages, milk based (except establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery (30 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery
Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery (30 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery has fewer employees than the Beverages, milk based (except dietary), median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2024 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2023 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 15.7 7.9 4 0 0
2021 39.7 26.5 9 0 0
2020 10.0 5.0 2 0 0
2018 25.6 0.0 9 0 0
2017 28.5 5.7 10 0 0
2016 14.3 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · IA · Wellman

457 Beverages, milk based (except dietary), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 5 employers in Wellman, 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 Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0045-0045-08416 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main 19.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Mount Pleasant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Laborers 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Plant 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kading Construction Company Inc 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid-Prairie Community School District 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parkview Manor 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR PSI 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wellman Produce Co. 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Bloomington Vending 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Starling Steel Services, Inc 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR premier panel company 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverside Hampton Surgery Center 17.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookfield Store 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester North Hampton Inn & Suites 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Store 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fritz Products 30 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.