Grain alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing · Iowa

POET - Jewell

Jewell, IA · ~43 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

POET - Jewell runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grain alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

POET - Jewell: 1.1 TCR = 33% of Grain alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

POET - Jewell safety composite

POET - Jewell scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

POET - Jewell: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.94× in 2024

POET - Jewell's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Jewell, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 33% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #6/49
  • PHOTO Siouxland Ethanol
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Siouxland Ethanol (0.1 TCR gap)

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POET - Jewell in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows POET - Jewell averages 1.1 TCR (33% of the Grain alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

POET - Jewell TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where POET - Jewell falls in its industry

228 Grain alcohol, nonpotable, man establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 49 Grain alcohol, nonpotable, man employers in Iowa.

POET - Jewell (43 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate POET - Jewell
POET - Jewell (43 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

POET - Jewell has fewer employees than the Grain alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing median and a lower 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.5 2.2 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IA · Jewell

228 Grain alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Siouxland Ethanol 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big River Resources Boyceville, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR POET Bioprocessing -Hudson 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tharaldson Ethanol 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms North 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koester Construction Company Incorporated 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Contracting Services 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Horizon Ethanol dba Poet Biorefinery 44 FTE
NAT-TCR Hardwood Dimension Manufactures 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Eleet Cryogenics Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DH Pace Door Services - Oklahoma 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Grace Industries LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wolfe Electric Co., Inc. - Lincoln 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fabrizi Recycling Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE HamptonWoods Assisted Living 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Borden & Remington 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.