Animal except Poultry Slaughtering · Iowa

Storm Lake Plant

Storm Lake, IA · ~2,247 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
4
Fatalities
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The verdict

Storm Lake Plant runs at 382% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal except Poultry Slaughtering workplace, earning a grade F.

Storm Lake Plant: 12.6 TCR = 382% of Animal except Poultry Slaughtering BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Storm Lake Plant safety composite

Storm Lake Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 49% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 4

Safer than 0% 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

−3.8

2017→2024

Storm Lake Plant injury rate improved

Storm Lake Plant's TCR fell 3.8 from 8.1 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 39.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.1 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=39.1 · 2021=10.0 · 2022=19.7 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Storm Lake, IA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 382% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #25/26
  • PHOTO Vermont Packinghouse…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 533 inj
  • SIZE ~2,247 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vermont Packinghouse LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Storm Lake Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Storm Lake Plant averages 12.6 TCR (382% 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

Storm Lake Plant TCR series: 2017=8.1 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=39.1 · 2021=10 · 2022=19.7 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Storm Lake Plant falls in its industry

212 Animal except Poultry Slaughte establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #25 safest of 26 Animal except Poultry Slaughte employers in Iowa.

Storm Lake Plant (2,247 employees, TCR 12.6) 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 Storm Lake Plant
Storm Lake Plant (2,247 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Storm Lake Plant has more employees than the Animal except Poultry Slaughtering median and a higher 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
2024 4.2 3.0 52 36 0
2023 5.4 4.1 53 64 0
2022 19.7 18.2 50 374 0
2021 10.0 9.2 39 182 0
2020 39.1 37.0 68 813 4
2019 6.6 5.0 84 73 0
2018 7.7 5.5 90 86 0
2017 8.1 6.5 97 87 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · IA · Storm Lake

212 Animal except Poultry Slaughtering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 31 employers in Storm Lake, 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 Vermont Packinghouse LLC 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison Plant 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill 12.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FM Meat Products 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE JBS Marshalltown 2,231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Whirlpool - Amana 2,230 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heartland Express Corporate 2,211 FTE
STATE-SIZE TMC Transportation - Corporate 2,208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Storm Lake Turkey Plant 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buena Vista Regional Medical Center 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1526 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1526 253 FTE
NAT-TCR 133 Falmouth Road, Mashpee, MA 02649 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenfield Care Center of Fillmore 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 8012 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR W. & E. Radtke, Inc. 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Department of State Hospitals-Napa 2,248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meriter Hospital 2,249 FTE
NAT-SIZE Long Island City Facility 2,244 FTE
NAT-SIZE Traffic Management LLC 2,244 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.