Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming · Iowa

Southwood Sow Unit

Sumner, IA · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
25.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwood Sow Unit runs at 558% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Southwood Sow Unit: 25.1 TCR = 558% of Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwood Sow Unit safety composite

Southwood Sow Unit scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 25.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

−10.9

2023→2024

Southwood Sow Unit injury rate improved

Southwood Sow Unit's TCR fell 10.9 from 30.5 in 2023 to 19.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 30.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=30.5 · 2024=19.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 25.1 · 558% of ind

  • DART 19.6 DART
  • RANK #40/40
  • PHOTO Fine Oak Farm
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fine Oak Farm (0.7 TCR gap)

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Southwood Sow Unit in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwood Sow Unit averages 25.1 TCR (558% of the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming BLS benchmark).

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

Southwood Sow Unit TCR series: 2023=30.5 · 2024=19.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Southwood Sow Unit falls in its industry

280 Hog and pig (including breedin establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #40 safest of 40 Hog and pig (including breedin employers in Iowa.

Southwood Sow Unit (29 employees, TCR 25.1) 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 Southwood Sow Unit
Southwood Sow Unit (29 employees, TCR 25.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 26 employees and a TCR of 7.7

Southwood Sow Unit has more employees than the Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowi 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 19.6 19.6 7 0 0
2023 30.5 27.8 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112210 · IA · Sumner

280 Hog and pig (including breeding, farrowing, nursery, and finishing activities) farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 4 employers in Sumner, 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 Fine Oak Farm 25.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middle Creek Swine, LLC. 24.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smiling Porker 24.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastwood Sow Unit 23.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE FDML Forest City 0016 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dogwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery Valley Farms 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elkader 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Line Emergency Vehicles 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillcrest 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR HILLCREST HOME INC 90 FTE
NAT-TCR 1002-Ucpmc-Armory B - Tradewinds 25.1 TCR
NAT-TCR empirical foods, inc. - Lexington 25.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Marshfield Care Center 25.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0064 Capitola 25.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tucker Columbia 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hardy Paramount 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lone Star San Antonio Medina Street 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Harrisonburg 29 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. 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.