Yeast manufacturing · Iowa

Red Star Yeast Co.

Name: Red Star Yeast Co. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Cedar Rapids, IA · ~127 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.8
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Red Star Yeast Co. runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Yeast manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Red Star Yeast Co.: 1.8 TCR = 43% of Yeast manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Red Star Yeast Co. safety composite

Red Star Yeast Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Red Star Yeast Co.: 0.7 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2019

Red Star Yeast Co.'s TCR rose 1.0 from 0.7 in 2016 to 1.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Cedar Rapids, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 43% of ind

DART 0.6 DART
RANK #4/26
PHOTO Papetti's of Iowa
BOOK 4y book
INJ 10 inj
SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Papetti's of Iowa (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.8
Papetti's of I

1.8
Chr. Hansen -

1.8
Herbalife LF

1.7
Sugar Foods Li

1.7

What this shows Red Star Yeast Co. averages 1.8 TCR (43% of the Yeast manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Red Star Yeast Co. TCR series: 2016=0.7 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Red Star Yeast Co. falls in its industry

335 Yeast manufacturing establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 26 Yeast manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Red Star Yeast Co. (127 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Red Star Yeast Co. has more employees than the Yeast manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2019	1.7	0.6	2	1
2018	1.8	0.0	3	0
2017	2.8	1.4	4	0
2016	0.7	0.7	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · IA · Cedar Rapids

335 Yeast manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 466 employers in Cedar Rapids, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Papetti's of Iowa	LENOX, IA	1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Herbalife LF	LAKE FOREST, CA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sugar Foods Lithia Springs	NEW YORK, NY	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Chr. Hansen - West Allis	MILWAUKEE, WI	1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	CR Operations	CEDAR RAPIDS	127 FTE
STATE-SIZE	HNI Information Technologies	MUSCATINE	127 FTE
STATE-SIZE	IA001 AHM DAVENPORT	DAVENPORT	127 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Story City	STORY CITY	127 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE)	Cedar Rapids	6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave	Cedar Rapids	6,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CRST EXPEDITED INC	Cedar Rapids	3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Luke's Methodist Hospital	Cedar Rapids	2,949 FTE
NAT-TCR	AZALEA	Floyds Knobs, IN	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bluestem Brands Contact Center	St Cloud, MN	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Masco Cabinetry Middlefield LLC Plant #3	Orwell, OH	1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Show Me Ready Mix LLC	Lake Lotawana, MO	1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Rocky Mountain Crude Oil LLC	Greenwood Village, CO	127 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Finishing Plant	Cartersville, GA	127 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fun Sweets LLC	West Palm Beach, FL	127 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fireking Baking Co.	Braintree, MA	127 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: 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.