Abattoirs · Iowa

Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC

Sigourney, IA · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC runs at 656% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Abattoirs workplace, earning a grade F.

Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC: 21.6 TCR = 656% of Abattoirs BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC safety composite

Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC: 23.4 → 24.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 24.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2018

Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC's TCR rose 0.9 from 23.4 in 2016 to 24.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Sigourney, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.6 · 656% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #26/26
  • PHOTO True West Beef, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: True West Beef, LLC (0.3 TCR gap)

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Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC averages 21.6 TCR (656% of the Abattoirs BLS benchmark).

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

Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC TCR series: 2016=23.4 · 2017=17.3 · 2018=24.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC falls in its industry

212 Abattoirs establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #26 safest of 26 Abattoirs employers in Iowa.

Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC (29 employees, TCR 21.6) 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 Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC
Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC (29 employees, TCR 21.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Thunder Ridge Beef Company, LLC has fewer employees than the Abattoirs 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
2018 24.2 9.1 8 0 0
2017 17.3 4.3 4 0 0
2016 23.4 14.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · IA · Sigourney

212 Abattoirs employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 7 employers in Sigourney, 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 True West Beef, LLC 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Logan Premium Meats and Processing, LLC 20.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manning Beef, LLC 20.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4829-13820 20.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE FDML Forest City 0016 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dogwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery Valley Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Keokuk Hills Beef Company LLC 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manor House Care Center 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bender Foundry Service 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brothers Market 8 30 FTE
NAT-TCR Woodlands Memory Care of Lewiston 21.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer Memorial Rest Home 21.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Homestead 21.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Armstrong Garden Centers 716 21.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Office 76 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Linde - Kittery 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Linde - Catano, PR 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Linde- Brandon 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: 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.