Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing · Iowa

Ottumwa Branch

Ottumwa, IA · ~29 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ottumwa Branch runs at 271% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ottumwa Branch: 8.9 TCR = 271% of Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ottumwa Branch safety composite

Ottumwa Branch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

−2.2

2016→2022

Ottumwa Branch injury rate improved

Ottumwa Branch's TCR fell 2.2 from 12.3 in 2016 to 10.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 17.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.3 · 2017=17.8 · 2018=10.6 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=10.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312111 · Ottumwa, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 271% of ind

  • DART 10.1 DART
  • RANK #12/16
  • PHOTO Sioux City - Corpora…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sioux City - Corporate Office - SC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ottumwa Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ottumwa Branch averages 8.9 TCR (271% of the Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ottumwa Branch TCR series: 2016=12.3 · 2017=17.8 · 2018=10.6 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=10.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Ottumwa Branch falls in its industry

516 Beverages, soft drink (includi establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 16 Beverages, soft drink (includi employers in Iowa.

Ottumwa Branch (29 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ottumwa Branch
Ottumwa Branch (29 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Ottumwa Branch has fewer employees than the Beverages, soft drink (including artific median and a higher 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
2022 10.1 10.1 2 0 0
2021 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2020 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2019 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2018 10.6 10.6 3 0 0
2017 17.8 17.8 6 0 0
2016 12.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312111 · IA · Ottumwa

516 Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 57 employers in Ottumwa, 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 Sioux City - Corporate Office - SC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pepsi of Salina 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2005 - Downey 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wis-Pak of Flagstaff 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE FDML Forest City 0016 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dogwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery Valley Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR JBS 2,121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Works 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Ottumwa Works 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ottumwa Regional Health Center 573 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0017-0016-03489 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03487 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Specialty Construction Systems LTD 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 337170-Ridgewood Po 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Best Line Equipment - Mechanicsburg 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bronco Electric, Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hauter Brothers Inc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Harbor at Peace Village 29 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.