Wet Corn Milling and Starch Manufacturing · Iowa

Red Oak IA

Red Oak, IA · ~71 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Red Oak IA runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Wet Corn Milling and Starch Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Red Oak IA: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Wet Corn Milling and Starch Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Red Oak IA safety composite

Red Oak IA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−3.2

2020→2024

Red Oak IA injury rate improved

Red Oak IA's TCR fell 3.2 from 5.3 in 2020 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.3 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311221 · Red Oak, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO North Kansas City Fa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Kansas City Facility (0.1 TCR gap)

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Red Oak IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Red Oak IA averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Wet Corn Milling and Starch Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Red Oak IA TCR series: 2020=5.3 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Red Oak IA falls in its industry

53 Wet Corn Milling and Starch Ma establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 14 Wet Corn Milling and Starch Ma employers in Iowa.

Red Oak IA (71 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Red Oak IA
Red Oak IA (71 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Red Oak IA has fewer employees than the Wet Corn Milling and Starch Manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.5 1.3 2 0 0
2020 5.3 2.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311221 · IA · Red Oak

53 Wet Corn Milling and Starch Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 23 employers in Red Oak, 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 North Kansas City Facility 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primient Loudon Plant 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peoria Corn Plant 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR GPC - Muscatine 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maquoketa Valley Electric Cooperative 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peters Construction Corporation 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE T & K Roofing & Sheet Metal Company Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Mechanical Corp 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montgomery County Memorial Hospital 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fluid Connectors : Red Oak 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fres-co System USA, Inc 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Oak - Main Store 91 FTE
NAT-TCR FC: Greencastle 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Warrior Electric Membership Corporation 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Clearfield 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR QuesTec Constructors, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walsh 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE World Wide Manufacturing 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tailor Welded Blanks Canton 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Salt Lake City 71 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, 2020. 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.