Starches (except laundry) manufacturing · Iowa

Roquette America - Keokuk

Keokuk, IA · ~405 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Roquette America - Keokuk runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Starches (except laundry) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Roquette America - Keokuk: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Starches (except laundry) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Roquette America - Keokuk safety composite

Roquette America - Keokuk scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−1.6

2016→2024

Roquette America - Keokuk injury rate improved

Roquette America - Keokuk's TCR fell 1.6 from 4.3 in 2016 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2017=3.5 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311221 · Keokuk, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO Cargill CSST Memphis
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 93 inj
  • SIZE ~405 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill CSST Memphis (0.1 TCR gap)

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Roquette America - Keokuk in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Roquette America - Keokuk averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Starches (except laundry) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Roquette America - Keokuk TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=3.5 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=2.2 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Roquette America - Keokuk falls in its industry

53 Starches (except laundry) manu establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #13 safest of 14 Starches (except laundry) manu employers in Iowa.

Roquette America - Keokuk (405 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Roquette America - Keokuk
Roquette America - Keokuk (405 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Roquette America - Keokuk has more employees than the Starches (except laundry) manufacturing 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 2.8 1.8 11 0 0
2023 2.3 1.6 9 1 0
2022 2.7 2.2 11 0 0
2021 4.4 2.4 16 2 0
2020 2.2 1.2 6 3 0
2019 2.5 1.6 10 1 0
2017 3.5 1.9 14 1 0
2016 4.3 1.9 16 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311221 · IA · Keokuk

53 Starches (except laundry) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 35 employers in Keokuk, 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 Cargill CSST Memphis 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peoria Corn Plant 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Kansas City Facility 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Oak IA 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE IAC, Iowa City LLC 406 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1764 404 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snap On Tools 403 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3590 408 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1431 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1431 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amested Rail - Griffin Wheel Keokuk 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seither & Cherry Company 142 FTE
NAT-TCR The Bedwell Company 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Environment Control of Beachwood, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Philly Shipyard INC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Polaris Boardman 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pilkington North America 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Savage Arms, Inc. 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE HRT Plymouth 405 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trion Mill 405 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, 2017, 2016. 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.