Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering · Iowa

Sioux City Fabrication Plant

Sioux Center, IA · ~166 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sioux City Fabrication Plant runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering workplace, earning a grade D.

Sioux City Fabrication Plant: 4.2 TCR = 128% 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 dart rate (safer than 72% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sioux City Fabrication Plant: 0.0 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.38× in 2020

Sioux City Fabrication Plant's TCR rose 6.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Sioux Center, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #11/26
  • PHOTO FPL Food Main Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~166 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FPL Food Main Plant (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 4.2 TCR (128% 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: 2017=0 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Sioux City Fabrication Plant falls in its industry

212 Animal (except Poultry) Slaugh establishments

Safer than 62% 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 #11 safest of 26 Animal (except Poultry) Slaugh employers in Iowa.

Sioux City Fabrication Plant (166 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 (166 employees, TCR 4.2) 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
2020 6.5 1.6 12 0 0
2019 6.1 2.2 13 1 0
2018 4.3 1.3 10 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · IA · Sioux Center

212 Animal (except Poultry) Slaughtering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 32 employers in Sioux Center, 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 FPL Food Main Plant 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Bay Dressed Beef, LLC Acme Plant 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grinds - Columbia SC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR H&B Packing Co. Inc 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux City - SC 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cargill Fort Dodge 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodbine Manufacturing 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maintainer Corporation of Iowa 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Interstates/Harbor 1,090 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Sioux Center 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Sioux Center, IA 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats-LLC 453 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 681 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1239 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1852 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 19 Arlington Heights, Il 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1025 - Manahawkin Nj Whse 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS Aviation Services : JAX - Jacksonville 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE 045146-Fayetteville P&Df 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE U.S. Foundry & Manufacturing Corporatation 166 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, 2018, 2017. 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.