Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · Iowa

POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning

Name: POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning Workplace Safety Data
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Corning, IA · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning: 3.5 TCR = 106% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning safety composite

POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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).

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−4.4

2016→2021

POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning injury rate improved

POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning's TCR fell 4.4 from 4.4 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.4 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Corning, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 106% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #30/49
PHOTO Little Sioux Corn Pr…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Little Sioux Corn Processors (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Indian

3.6
This site

3.5
Little Sioux C

3.5
Midwest Renewa

3.5
KAAPA Ethanol,

3.5

What this shows POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning averages 3.5 TCR (106% of the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=0 · BLS 3.3

Where POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 49 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in Iowa.

POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning (43 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

POET Biorefining, LLC - Corning has fewer employees than the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	5.1	0.0	2
2019	4.5	2.3	2
2016	4.4	0.0	2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IA · Corning

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 10 employers in Corning, 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	Little Sioux Corn Processors	MARCUS, IA	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Midwest Renewable Energy	SUTHERLAND, NE	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	KAAPA Ethanol, LLC	MINDEN, NE	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Central Indiana Ethanol, LLC	MARION, IN	3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Centrum Valley Farms North	CLARION	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Burlington	BURLINGTON	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Koester Construction Company Incorporated	GRIMES	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Commercial Contracting Services	KEOKUK	43 FTE
CITY-NEAR	ACH MERCY HOSPITAL - CORNING	Corning	90 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2643-14280001-142801	Corning	76 FTE
CITY-NEAR	14280001-142801 MERCY CORNING	Corning	74 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Poet Biorefining- Corning	Corning	43 FTE
NAT-TCR	Endicott	Endicott, NE	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Trulite Grenada	Grenada, MS	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kraft Heinz -Tulare CA	Tulare, CA	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Inland Label and Marketing Services, LLC - LNW	Neenah, WI	3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Whitcraft Enterprises, Inc.	Fort Wayne, IN	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Ryerson - Philadelphia	Morrisville, PA	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Androscoggin Learning and Transition Center	Auburn, ME	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	california landscape studios	Irvine, CA	43 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, 2019, 2016. 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.