Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale · Iowa

Produce Innovations

Name: Produce Innovations Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Norwalk, IA · ~220 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Produce Innovations runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade B.

Produce Innovations: 2.8 TCR = 68% of Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Produce Innovations safety composite

Produce Innovations scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% 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).

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

Produce Innovations held a steady TCR band

Produce Innovations's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.0 in 2020 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.0 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Norwalk, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 68% of ind

DART 1.6 DART
RANK #1/6
PHOTO Land O'Lakes - Hicks…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 26 inj
SIZE ~220 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Land O'Lakes - Hicksville, NY (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.8
Land O'Lakes -

2.8
JTM Food Group

2.8
Misionero

2.8
Kent Precision

2.7

What this shows Produce Innovations averages 2.8 TCR (68% of the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

Produce Innovations TCR series: 2020=2 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=2 · BLS 4.1

Where Produce Innovations falls in its industry

376 Food, prepared, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 6 Food, prepared, perishable, pa employers in Iowa.

Produce Innovations (220 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Produce Innovations has more employees than the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2023	2.0	1.6	5
2022	3.5	2.5	7
2021	3.6	2.0	9
2020	2.0	2.0	5

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · IA · Norwalk

376 Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 19 employers in Norwalk, 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	Land O'Lakes - Hicksville, NY	HICKSVILLE, NY	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	JTM Food Group	HARRISON, OH	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Misionero	GONZALES, CA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kent Precision Foods Group- Foley	FOLEY, MN	2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Modernfold	DYERSVILLE	220 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Cedar Rapids, IA - Prairie Valley Court	CEDAR RAPIDS	220 FTE
STATE-SIZE	VenuWorks of Cedar Rapids, LLC.	CEDAR RAPIDS	220 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Machine Shop (A Unit of IDEX Corporation)	CEDAR FALLS	219 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Michael Foods - Norwalk	Norwalk	198 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Capital City Fruit, Inc.	Norwalk	167 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Windsor Windows and Doors	Norwalk	161 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FAREWAY STORES, INC. 077 NORWALK	Norwalk	127 FTE
NAT-TCR	Pharmalink	Largo, FL	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Oyster Bay Golf Course	Sunset Beach, NC	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	5253 Hialeah Gardens	Miami, FL	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bay Shore Storage Warehouse, Inc.	Hauppauge, NY	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	D&D Electrical Constr. Co. Inc.	New York, NY	220 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bethlehem #159	Slingerlands, NY	220 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fluid Connectors : Batesville	Batesville, MS	220 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Maax Bath Martinsburg	Martinsburg, WV	220 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.