Processed meats manufacturing · Iowa

Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1

Council Bluffs, IA · ~315 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 safety composite

Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1: 1.3 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2021

Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1's TCR rose 1.5 from 1.3 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Council Bluffs, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #13/32
  • PHOTO Branding Iron Holdings
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~315 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Branding Iron Holdings (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=3 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 32 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 (315 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1
Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 (315 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2021 2.8 2.0 11 0 0
2020 2.5 1.2 9 1 0
2017 3.0 1.9 11 0 0
2016 1.3 0.6 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IA · Council Bluffs

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 165 employers in Council Bluffs, 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 Branding Iron Holdings 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR George's Prepared Foods 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dan's Prize Browerville 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Columbia 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sabre Industries Utilities Division 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE Geater Machining and Manufacturing, CO 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 5748 315 FTE
STATE-SIZE Universal Pediatrics 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant 1,486 FTE
CITY-NEAR 61830022 JENNIE EDMUNDSON MEMORIAL HOSP 903 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6183-61830022 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Council Bluffs IA 742 FTE
NAT-TCR Abon Pharmaceuticals 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dot Transportation, Inc.- MTS DTI 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ADESA Austin 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR S05371 - WM of IL - North (McHenry) 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 7332-CPChem Cedar Bayou 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE SignResource Identity Group 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZMIL 315 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0306 - Clifton Nj Whse 315 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: 2021, 2020, 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.