Salad dressings manufacturing · Iowa

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center

Name: Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Grundy Center, IA · ~100 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 10.3
Avg TCR: 4.1
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Salad dressings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center: 10.3 TCR = 251% of Salad dressings manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center safety composite

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 10.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−10.1

2016→2020

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center injury rate improved

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center's TCR fell 10.1 from 13.9 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.9 · 2017=11.8 · 2019=11.7 · 2020=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 251% of ind

DART 2.8 DART
RANK P8
PHOTO 7689 - 1-MAIN
BOOK 4y book
INJ 34 inj
SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 7689 - 1-MAIN (0.1 TCR gap)

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Fleischmann's

11.3
Fredericksburg

10.7
7689 - 1-MAIN

10.4
This site

10.3
1137 North Kea

10.2

What this shows Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center averages 10.3 TCR (251% of the Salad dressings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center TCR series: 2016=13.9 · 2017=11.8 · 2019=11.7 · 2020=3.8 · BLS 4.1

Where Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center falls in its industry

134 Salad dressings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - Grundy Center (100 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Richelieu Foods, Inc. - 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
2020	3.8	2.8	4	0
2019	11.7	9.0	10	3
2017	11.8	8.8	7	5
2016	13.9	10.2	13	2

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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	7689 - 1-MAIN	AUSTIN, TX	10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1137 North Kealy	LEWISVILLE, TX	10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fredericksburg Plant	FREDERICKSBURG, IA	10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fleischmann's Vinegar Company	NORTH ROSE, NY	11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	The Weitz Company, LLC. - Mission Critical	DES MOINES	100 FTE
STATE-SIZE	JFSNA at ADM Clinton	CLINTON	100 FTE
STATE-SIZE	All Star Concrete	JOHNSTON	100 FTE
STATE-SIZE	North Plant	FORT DODGE	100 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Richelieu Foods Grundy Center	Grundy Center	95 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Creekside	Grundy Center	77 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WATERLOO IA - 247	Grundy Center	46 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Boulder Contracting	Grundy Center	37 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ross store 435	Davie, FL	10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Good Earth Corporation	Dallas, TX	10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ottenweller Company, Inc. Fort Wayne Headquarters	Fort Wayne, IN	10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Stampsource	Charlotte, NC	10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Reefer Systems INC dba Midlands Carrier Transicold	Omaha, NE	100 FTE
NAT-SIZE	414 - Grand Prairie	Grand Prairie, TX	100 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Select Specialty Hospital - South Dakota	Sioux Falls, SD	100 FTE
NAT-SIZE	International Paper-Newark Container	Newark, OH	100 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: 2020, 2019, 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.