Soybean oil, deodorized, made in oil mills · Iowa

Refinery

Sgt. Bluff, IA · ~25 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Refinery runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Soybean oil, deodorized, made in oil mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Refinery: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Soybean oil, deodorized, made in oil mills BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Refinery safety composite

Refinery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Refinery: 4.5 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

Refinery's TCR rose 5.1 from 4.5 in 2018 to 9.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311224 · Sgt. Bluff, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #17/32
  • PHOTO Cargill Agricultural…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Lafayette (0.0 TCR gap)

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Refinery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Refinery averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Soybean oil, deodorized, made in oil mills BLS benchmark).

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

Refinery TCR series: 2018=4.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=10.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=9.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Refinery falls in its industry

146 Soybean oil, deodorized, made establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 32 Soybean oil, deodorized, made employers in Iowa.

Refinery (25 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Refinery
Refinery (25 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Refinery has fewer employees than the Soybean oil, deodorized, made in oil mil median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 9.5 3.2 2 1 0
2023 4.2 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 10.9 10.9 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.5 4.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311224 · IA · Sgt. Bluff

146 Soybean oil, deodorized, made in oil mills 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 Agricultural Supply Chain - Lafayette 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norfolk Crush 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oil Refinery 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Soy Plant 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WCT-Crystal Lake 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oskaloosa Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consumers Energy 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Texas Children's Hospital-West Campus 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 50111 - CAPSTONE Home Depot Lacey WA 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wetzel Ford 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Red River Pallet Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE ABERDEEN 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Live Office 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flexfab 44th St Distribution 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 30248 - CAPSTONE Shamrock Eastvale CA 25 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.