Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production · Iowa

Summit Farms, LLC

Alden, IA · ~120 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Summit Farms, LLC runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Summit Farms, LLC: 6.3 TCR = 141% of Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Summit Farms, LLC safety composite

Summit Farms, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−3.3

2023→2024

Summit Farms, LLC injury rate improved

Summit Farms, LLC's TCR fell 3.3 from 8.0 in 2023 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.0 · 2024=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111150 · Alden, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 141% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO United Farmers Coope…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) (0.3 TCR gap)

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Summit Farms, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Summit Farms, LLC averages 6.3 TCR (141% of the Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Summit Farms, LLC TCR series: 2023=8 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Summit Farms, LLC falls in its industry

33 Corn farming (except sweet cor establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Corn farming (except sweet cor employers in Iowa.

Summit Farms, LLC (120 employees, TCR 6.3) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 Summit Farms, LLC
Summit Farms, LLC (120 employees, TCR 6.3) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Summit Farms, LLC has more employees than the Corn farming (except sweet corn), field median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 4.7 2.4 6 0 0
2023 8.0 2.9 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111150 · IA · Alden

33 Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schlessman Seed Co - Hoover Road 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Farmers Cooperative (Red Oak) 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sills Farms, Inc. 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1886-Huxley, IA (Monsanto Co.) 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meridian Mfg 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Engineered Plastic Components INC 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE TPI Composites LLC IA2 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid-State Milling Inc Buckeye mill 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Tnmas - Nashville Hub 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Quality Tool & Stamping Inc. Co. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Advantage Service Company 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tampa Bay Downs, Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Masag - Sagamore 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gabru - Brunswick 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE T Bailey, Inc 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ncgol - Goldsboro Center 120 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.