Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing · Iowa

Simply Essentials

Charles City, IA · ~482 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Simply Essentials runs at 595% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing workplace, earning a grade F.

Simply Essentials: 19.6 TCR = 595% of Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Simply Essentials safety composite

Simply Essentials scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−29.2

2016→2017

Simply Essentials injury rate improved

Simply Essentials's TCR fell 29.2 from 34.3 in 2016 to 5.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 34.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=34.3 · 2017=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Charles City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.6 · 595% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO David Elliot Poultry…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~482 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: David Elliot Poultry Farm, Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Simply Essentials in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Simply Essentials averages 19.6 TCR (595% of the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Simply Essentials TCR series: 2016=34.3 · 2017=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Simply Essentials falls in its industry

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Poultry slaughtering, dressing employers in Iowa.

Simply Essentials (482 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Simply Essentials
Simply Essentials (482 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Simply Essentials has fewer employees than the Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and pack median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2017 5.0 3.3 17 1 0
2016 34.3 34.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · IA · Charles City

509 Poultry slaughtering, dressing, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 25 employers in Charles City, 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 David Elliot Poultry Farm, Inc 19.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vital Foods LLC 19.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilkesboro Fresh Plant II 18.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MAPLE LEAF FARMS, INC. - SERENADE & DC 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cargill Eddyville Iowa 482 FTE
STATE-SIZE Regional Medical Center 482 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wallace Building 483 FTE
STATE-SIZE Armour 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis LLC. 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cambrex Charles City, Inc. 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR FLOYD COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winnebago Industries - Charles City 166 FTE
NAT-TCR Kirtland Leasing, LLC 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Monica Program 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Manor - Normal #109 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MapleView Health and Rehabilitation Center 19.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ivc Us 482 FTE
NAT-SIZE GEHC : Radiopharmacies Americas, LS 482 FTE
NAT-SIZE Express Scripts Pharmacy, Inc. Columbus OH 482 FTE
NAT-SIZE 103165 - Chevron Richmond Modernization H2 Const. 482 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: 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.