Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing · Iowa

Rowe's Services, Ltd.

Le Mars, IA · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rowe's Services, Ltd. runs at 296% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Rowe's Services, Ltd.: 9.8 TCR = 296% of Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rowe's Services, Ltd. safety composite

Rowe's Services, Ltd. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2017→2018

Rowe's Services, Ltd. injury rate improved

Rowe's Services, Ltd.'s TCR fell 2.3 from 10.9 in 2017 to 8.6 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.9 · 2018=8.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333241 · Le Mars, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 296% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/15
  • PHOTO Packline Technologie…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Packline Technologies, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Rowe's Services, Ltd. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rowe's Services, Ltd. averages 9.8 TCR (296% of the Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rowe's Services, Ltd. TCR series: 2017=10.9 · 2018=8.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Rowe's Services, Ltd. falls in its industry

215 Food choppers, grinders, mixer establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 15 Food choppers, grinders, mixer employers in Iowa.

Rowe's Services, Ltd. (21 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rowe's Services, Ltd.
Rowe's Services, Ltd. (21 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Rowe's Services, Ltd. has fewer employees than the Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and sli median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 8.6 0.0 2 0 0
2017 10.9 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333241 · IA · Le Mars

215 Food choppers, grinders, mixers, and slicers (i.e., food manufacturing-type) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 43 employers in Le Mars, 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 Packline Technologies, Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pearl Crop Inc, Modesto 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rome Grinding Solutions 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raque Food Systems LLC 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Audubon Vet Clinic 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos South 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE K & B Ag Supply 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Ice Cream Plant 1,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center- Headquarter Employees 413 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Ice Cream Freezer 397 FTE
NAT-TCR SCC at Hunters Pond Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Palm Aire - Resort 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Apex Rehabilitation & Care Center 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Merrywood Lodge 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4006 Mt. Aloysius College 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0774 - Albuquerque-Central, Nm 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0744 - Jasper, Al 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0725 - Easton, Pa 21 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.