Pig farming · Iowa

Skyline Pork, LLC

Independence, IA · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Skyline Pork, LLC runs at 35% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pig farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Skyline Pork, LLC: 1.6 TCR = 35% of Pig farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Skyline Pork, LLC safety composite

Skyline Pork, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Skyline Pork, LLC held a steady TCR band

Skyline Pork, LLC's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112210 · Independence, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 35% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/40
  • PHOTO PLUM THICKETT MULT S…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PLUM THICKETT MULT SOW -EST (0.0 TCR gap)

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Skyline Pork, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Skyline Pork, LLC averages 1.6 TCR (35% of the Pig farming BLS benchmark).

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

Skyline Pork, LLC TCR series: 2016=0 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Skyline Pork, LLC falls in its industry

280 Pig farming establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.7.

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 40 Pig farming employers in Iowa.

Skyline Pork, LLC (20 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7 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 0100200300400 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Skyline Pork, LLC
Skyline Pork, LLC (20 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7

Skyline Pork, LLC has fewer employees than the Pig farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.7. 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112210 · IA · Independence

280 Pig farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 26 employers in Independence, 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 PLUM THICKETT MULT SOW -EST 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forest City Feedmill 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR RUCKMAN #9 - 16 & 27 -EST 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schwartz Farms SE Misc MN 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE J-Six Farms Iowa 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos Jacksonville 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newell Pig II 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Storm Lake, IA 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indepedence Store 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geater Machining and Manufacturing, CO 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR INDEPENDENCE PLANT 244 FTE
NAT-TCR US TN Memphis Plant 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Valcour - St. Louis 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Diversicare Of Lake Highlands 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CA.SAN J.2 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heath 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE SEA - Provisioning 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abs Corpus Christi Day Program 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Abs Harlingen Day Program 20 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: 2019, 2018, 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.