Animal except Poultry Slaughtering · Iowa

Sioux City Fabrication Plant

Sioux City, IA · ~171 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sioux City Fabrication Plant runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal except Poultry Slaughtering workplace, earning a grade B.

Sioux City Fabrication Plant: 2.6 TCR = 80% of Animal except Poultry Slaughtering BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sioux City Fabrication Plant safety composite

Sioux City Fabrication Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 55%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

−0.6

2021→2024

Sioux City Fabrication Plant injury rate improved

Sioux City Fabrication Plant's TCR fell 0.6 from 3.8 in 2021 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.8 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Sioux City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #7/26
  • PHOTO Smithfield Foods
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Smithfield Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sioux City Fabrication Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sioux City Fabrication Plant averages 2.6 TCR (80% of the Animal except Poultry Slaughtering BLS benchmark).

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

Sioux City Fabrication Plant TCR series: 2021=3.8 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Sioux City Fabrication Plant falls in its industry

212 Animal except Poultry Slaughte establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 26 Animal except Poultry Slaughte employers in Iowa.

Sioux City Fabrication Plant (171 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sioux City Fabrication Plant
Sioux City Fabrication Plant (171 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Sioux City Fabrication Plant has fewer employees than the Animal except Poultry Slaughtering median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 3.2 2.1 6 0 0
2023 2.3 1.8 4 0 0
2022 1.2 1.2 2 0 0
2021 3.8 2.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · IA · Sioux City

212 Animal except Poultry Slaughtering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux 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 Smithfield Foods 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smithfield 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Beef Moultrie, GA. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Pork Processors Inc. 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Marzetti Manufacturing Company Altoona 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lumber Specialties - Dyersville Truss 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton IA 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loparex LLC 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Engineered Floors - BM Facility 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ball Beverage Pkg 151 Golden 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Carolina Canners, Inc. (Cheraw) 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR East Coast Steel Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westbrook Service Corp 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE DOCCR-Adult Correctional Facility 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jefferson County Comprehensive Services, Inc. 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-America Golf and Landscape, Inc 171 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.