Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · Iowa

Quad County Corn Processors

Galva, IA · ~43 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quad County Corn Processors runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Quad County Corn Processors: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quad County Corn Processors safety composite

Quad County Corn Processors scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Quad County Corn Processors: 4.6 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2024

Quad County Corn Processors's TCR rose 2.0 from 4.6 in 2016 to 6.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #44/49
  • PHOTO Green Plains Superio…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Green Plains Superior LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quad County Corn Processors in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quad County Corn Processors averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Quad County Corn Processors TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=9.7 · 2018=14.2 · 2019=9.8 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Quad County Corn Processors falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #44 safest of 49 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in Iowa.

Quad County Corn Processors (43 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Quad County Corn Processors
Quad County Corn Processors (43 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Quad County Corn Processors 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 6.6 4.4 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.3 7.3 2 1 0
2020 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2019 9.8 9.8 4 0 0
2018 14.2 11.3 5 0 0
2017 9.7 7.3 4 0 0
2016 4.6 2.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IA · Galva

228 Ethanol, 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 Green Plains Superior LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poet- Coon Rapids 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poet Biorefining- Chancellor 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincolnway Energy, LLC 6.0 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 American Natural Processors 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Tara International LP 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6004 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Alleguard - Greer 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Orlando Baking Company 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE United Source One, Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maurice RICH 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE CompuWeigh Corporation 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calema LLC 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, 2018, 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.