Soybean oil mills · Iowa

Soy Plant

Eagle Grove, IA · ~86 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Soy Plant runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Soybean oil mills workplace, earning a grade D.

Soy Plant: 4.4 TCR = 134% of Soybean oil mills BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Soy Plant safety composite

Soy Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

−0.9

2016→2024

Soy Plant injury rate improved

Soy Plant's TCR fell 0.9 from 5.5 in 2016 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.5 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=4.1 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311224 · Eagle Grove, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 134% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #18/32
  • PHOTO Cargill Agricultural…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Iowa Falls (0.2 TCR gap)

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Soy Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Soy Plant averages 4.4 TCR (134% of the Soybean oil mills BLS benchmark).

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

Soy Plant TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=3.1 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=4.1 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Soy Plant falls in its industry

146 Soybean oil mills establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 32 Soybean oil mills employers in Iowa.

Soy Plant (86 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Soy Plant
Soy Plant (86 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Soy Plant has more employees than the Soybean oil mills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 4.6 4.6 4 0 0
2023 2.1 1.1 2 0 0
2021 4.1 3.1 4 0 0
2020 5.5 4.4 5 0 0
2019 9.1 8.0 8 0 0
2018 3.1 3.1 3 0 0
2017 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2016 5.5 2.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311224 · IA · Eagle Grove

146 Soybean oil mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 18 employers in Eagle Grove, 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 Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Iowa Falls 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ag Processing Hastings Refinery 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR DESTREHAN (OVC) 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Refinery 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hawkeye Paving Corp. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Academy Roofing and Sheet Metal of the Midwest Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hometown Plumbing & Heating 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lovewell Fencing, Inc. 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6728-00030023-29 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Daybreak Foods, Inc. 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR DBF Central Iowa 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vincent 106 FTE
NAT-TCR Arete Industries 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 2418-Hyatt Place Knoxville 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CORE Contractors 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dodge Moving & Storage 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kilstrom Center 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glenmark Construction Co., Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodgame Company, Inc 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canopy by Philadelphia Center City 86 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.