Salad dressings manufacturing · Iowa

Richelieu Foods Grundy Center

Grundy Center, IA · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richelieu Foods Grundy Center runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Salad dressings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Richelieu Foods Grundy Center: 7.9 TCR = 192% of Salad dressings manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richelieu Foods Grundy Center safety composite

Richelieu Foods Grundy Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−2.3

2021→2022

Richelieu Foods Grundy Center injury rate improved

Richelieu Foods Grundy Center's TCR fell 2.3 from 9.0 in 2021 to 6.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=9.0 · 2022=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311941 · Grundy Center, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 192% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK P13
  • PHOTO Classic Signature Fo…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Classic Signature Foods, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richelieu Foods Grundy Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richelieu Foods Grundy Center averages 7.9 TCR (192% of the Salad dressings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Richelieu Foods Grundy Center TCR series: 2021=9 · 2022=6.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Richelieu Foods Grundy Center falls in its industry

134 Salad dressings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Richelieu Foods Grundy Center (95 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Richelieu Foods Grundy Center
Richelieu Foods Grundy Center (95 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Richelieu Foods Grundy Center has fewer employees than the Salad dressings manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 6.7 3.4 6 0 0
2021 9.0 5.6 6 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311941 · IA · Grundy Center

134 Salad dressings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 12 employers in Grundy Center, 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 Classic Signature Foods, Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Foods International USA Inc Maryland 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4188_12737 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WAKOU USA HQ 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 4186 Cedar Rapids Box Plant 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mobotrex Davenport 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE BrandFX, LLC - Swea City 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE FAREWAY STORES, INC. 019 SIOUX CITY 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creekside 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR WATERLOO IA - 247 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boulder Contracting 37 FTE
NAT-TCR Safety Building Cleaning Corp 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 579082-Torrington Po 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 285700-Nevada Po 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 163780-Huntley Po 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE PCI Austin ISS 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Shores Store - 22 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0034-0034-00833 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0034-0034-01095 95 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. 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.