Chickens, slaughtering and dressing · Iowa

Pure Prairie Poultry

Charles City, IA · ~137 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pure Prairie Poultry runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chickens, slaughtering and dressing workplace, earning a grade D.

Pure Prairie Poultry: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pure Prairie Poultry safety composite

Pure Prairie Poultry scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Pure Prairie Poultry: 0.0 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2023

Pure Prairie Poultry's TCR rose 8.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 8.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Charles City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #1/5
  • PHOTO Sanderson Farms Laur…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanderson Farms Laurel Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pure Prairie Poultry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pure Prairie Poultry averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing BLS benchmark).

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

Pure Prairie Poultry TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Pure Prairie Poultry falls in its industry

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dre establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 5 Chickens, slaughtering and dre employers in Iowa.

Pure Prairie Poultry (137 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Pure Prairie Poultry
Pure Prairie Poultry (137 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Pure Prairie Poultry has fewer employees than the Chickens, slaughtering and dressing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 8.0 6.3 9 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · IA · Charles City

509 Chickens, slaughtering and dressing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 25 employers in Charles City, 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 Sanderson Farms Laurel Processing 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koch Foods Prepared Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primary Poultry - Dayton VA Plant 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dorada Foods Reidsville 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hawkeye Pride 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE EPI Power, LLC. - Microsoft DSM 12 Project 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Story Construction Company 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plastic Products Co., Inc - West Branch 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Simply Essentials 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis LLC. 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cambrex Charles City, Inc. 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR FLOYD COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER 184 FTE
NAT-TCR Better World Books -Mishawaka 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mountaintop Pa (Gatorade) 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (49) 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MP Equipment LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rainbow Beach 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burbank Rehabilitation Facility 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charlotte District 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #1180 137 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. 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.