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

Quality Plus Feeds Inc

St. Paul, IA · ~38 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quality Plus Feeds Inc runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Quality Plus Feeds Inc: 9.2 TCR = 236% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quality Plus Feeds Inc safety composite

Quality Plus Feeds Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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 Plus Feeds Inc: 5.0 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 20.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2022

Quality Plus Feeds Inc's TCR rose 3.4 from 5.0 in 2016 to 8.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 20.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · St. Paul, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 236% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #52/62
  • PHOTO Cargill Animal Nutri…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Animal Nutrition (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quality Plus Feeds Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quality Plus Feeds Inc averages 9.2 TCR (236% 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 Plus Feeds Inc TCR series: 2016=5 · 2017=3 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=20.2 · 2020=9.3 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=8.5 · BLS 3.9

Where Quality Plus Feeds Inc falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #52 safest of 62 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Iowa.

Quality Plus Feeds Inc (38 employees, TCR 9.2) 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 Plus Feeds Inc
Quality Plus Feeds Inc (38 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Quality Plus Feeds Inc has more 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
2022 8.5 6.3 4 0 0
2021 8.4 2.1 4 0 0
2020 9.3 4.6 4 0 0
2019 20.2 12.6 8 0 0
2018 10.2 2.5 4 0 0
2017 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2016 5.0 2.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · St. Paul

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 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Cargill Animal Nutrition 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pennington Seed PennPak II 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dixie Feedmill 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kent Nutrition Group- Bow 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2050-Clarion, IA 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waukon Feed Ranch Agronomy Center 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Production 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rognes Corp 38 FTE
NAT-TCR Bethany Rehabilitation & Health Care Center 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MBG Property Management, Inc. 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-EA-CMH-COLUMBUS-CMH-TRML 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FV Clinics-Highland Park 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Wire Inc SC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE PDM Sparks, Nevada 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE HZ JDB Inc 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG269 38 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.