Boxed beef produced in slaughtering plants · Iowa

Upper Iowa Beef LLC

Lime Springs, IA · ~289 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Upper Iowa Beef LLC runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Boxed beef produced in slaughtering plants workplace, earning a grade D.

Upper Iowa Beef LLC: 6.1 TCR = 184% of Boxed beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Upper Iowa Beef LLC safety composite

Upper Iowa Beef LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.6

2022→2024

Upper Iowa Beef LLC injury rate improved

Upper Iowa Beef LLC's TCR fell 4.6 from 9.0 in 2022 to 4.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.0 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311611 · Lime Springs, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 184% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #16/26
  • PHOTO Darling Ingredients:…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~289 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Darling Ingredients: Bellevue (0.0 TCR gap)

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Upper Iowa Beef LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Upper Iowa Beef LLC averages 6.1 TCR (184% of the Boxed beef produced in slaughtering plants BLS benchmark).

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

Upper Iowa Beef LLC TCR series: 2022=9 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Upper Iowa Beef LLC falls in its industry

212 Boxed beef produced in slaught establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #16 safest of 26 Boxed beef produced in slaught employers in Iowa.

Upper Iowa Beef LLC (289 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Upper Iowa Beef LLC
Upper Iowa Beef LLC (289 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 297 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Upper Iowa Beef LLC has fewer employees than the Boxed beef produced in slaughtering plan 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 4.4 2.0 15 0 0
2023 4.9 3.0 13 3 0
2022 9.0 8.0 27 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311611 · IA · Lime Springs

212 Boxed beef produced in slaughtering plants 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 Darling Ingredients: Bellevue 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milwaukee Plant 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cypress Valley - QFSA 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABF Packing LTD 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Highline Warren Council Bluffs Mfg 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE Des Moines, Iowa 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Collins (Decorah) 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1768 - Cedar Rapids North 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mehmert Tiling, Inc 51 FTE
NAT-TCR Missouri Sugars 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR FMC 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR #23 Salmon Creek Chuck'S 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bismarck Nd - 3055 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Health Boston DC 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE TX_Austin_810 Howard Lane_AUSHWD88 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel Californian 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Energy Services, LLC 289 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. 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.