Hog and Pig Farming · Iowa

Southwest Pork

Harlan, IA · ~18 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwest Pork runs at 321% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hog and Pig Farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Southwest Pork: 14.4 TCR = 321% of Hog and Pig Farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Pork safety composite

Southwest Pork scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.7

2016→2024

Southwest Pork injury rate improved

Southwest Pork's TCR fell 5.7 from 16.2 in 2016 to 10.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 29.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.2 · 2017=20.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=9.9 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=29.7 · 2023=23.4 · 2024=10.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112210 · Harlan, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 321% of ind

  • DART 10.5 DART
  • RANK #29/40
  • PHOTO Schwartz Farms CLF MN
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schwartz Farms CLF MN (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwest Pork in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwest Pork averages 14.4 TCR (321% of the Hog and Pig Farming BLS benchmark).

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

Southwest Pork TCR series: 2016=16.2 · 2017=20.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=9.9 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=29.7 · 2023=23.4 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Southwest Pork falls in its industry

280 Hog and Pig Farming establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #29 safest of 40 Hog and Pig Farming employers in Iowa.

Southwest Pork (18 employees, TCR 14.4) 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 Southwest Pork
Southwest Pork (18 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7

Southwest Pork has fewer employees than the Hog and Pig Farming median and a higher 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
2024 10.5 10.5 2 0 0
2023 23.4 23.4 4 1 0
2022 29.7 29.7 6 0 0
2021 5.1 5.1 1 0 0
2020 9.9 9.9 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 20.6 15.4 4 0 0
2016 16.2 10.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112210 · IA · Harlan

280 Hog and Pig Farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 25 employers in Harlan, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Schwartz Farms CLF MN 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Country Pork LLP 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indiana Sow Farm 3 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR J-Six Farms Iowa 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hatteras 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Orange City OCY1 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE River City Stone 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Des Moines Euclid 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Myrtue Medical Center 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monogram Prepared Meats LLC 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Engineering Company. Inc 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Engineering Co., Inc - Company Wide 125 FTE
NAT-TCR Mercier Orchards 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Viking Engineering and Development 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Alton, IL - Fire 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR RWJ Health Network INC 14.4 TCR

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, 2020, 2019, 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.