Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · Iowa

Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap

Dunlap, IA · ~17 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap: 6.6 TCR = 169% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap safety composite

Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap: 4.2 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2019

Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap's TCR rose 1.5 from 4.2 in 2016 to 5.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Dunlap, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #45/62
  • PHOTO Form A Feed New Rich…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Form A Feed New Richmond (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap averages 6.6 TCR (169% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=5.3 · 2018=11.1 · 2019=5.7 · BLS 3.9

Where Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #45 safest of 62 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Iowa.

Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap (17 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap
Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap (17 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Quality Liquid Feeds, Inc Dunlap has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m 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
2019 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2018 11.1 0.0 1 1 0
2017 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2016 4.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Dunlap

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Dunlap, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Form A Feed New Richmond 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gold Star Feed and Grain, LLC Adams Center NY 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alltech Eden 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Corning) 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE C26 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williams 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spencer #025 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dunlap Specialty Care 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8144 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dunlap IA 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Dept. of Parks, Recreation & Community Facilities 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Macy Industries Inc 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lukjan Great Plains LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer Valley - Tubes & Cores - C326 6.6 TCR

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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.