Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses · Iowa

Quality Processing Services Spencer

Spencer, IA · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quality Processing Services Spencer runs at 417% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Quality Processing Services Spencer: 13.8 TCR = 417% of Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quality Processing Services Spencer safety composite

Quality Processing Services Spencer scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.1

2016→2017

Quality Processing Services Spencer injury rate improved

Quality Processing Services Spencer's TCR fell 9.1 from 18.3 in 2016 to 9.2 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 18.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=18.3 · 2017=9.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Spencer, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 417% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #32/32
  • PHOTO The Protein Speciali…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Protein Specialists Company (0.2 TCR gap)

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Quality Processing Services Spencer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quality Processing Services Spencer averages 13.8 TCR (417% of the Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Quality Processing Services Spencer TCR series: 2016=18.3 · 2017=9.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Quality Processing Services Spencer falls in its industry

613 Boxed meat produced from purch establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 32 Boxed meat produced from purch employers in Iowa.

Quality Processing Services Spencer (36 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Quality Processing Services Spencer
Quality Processing Services Spencer (36 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Quality Processing Services Spencer has fewer employees than the Boxed meat produced from purchased carca median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2017 9.2 0.0 4 0 0
2016 18.3 12.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · IA · Spencer

613 Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 44 employers in Spencer, 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 The Protein Specialists Company 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR R.L.Zeigler Co., Inc. 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stock Yards Las Vegas Harrison 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western's Smokehouse & Meat Market, LLC. 14.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE ALGONA MARKET SWINE MANAGEMENT 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Butler County Rural Electric Cooperative 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Algona Municipal Utilities 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterloo Water Works 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnold Motor Supply 764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spencer Hospital 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spencer Municipal Hospital 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2714 221 FTE
NAT-TCR Showman Fabricators, Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 461 ABC Supply Co,. inc. 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 060 ABC Supply Co., Inc 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR R.V. Stich Construction, Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE C.L. Smith Industrial Company 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pannell Industries, Inc. Dallas-Fort Worth District 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0055 - El Paso, Tx 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE 48- Ladd (Cattani) 36 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.