Pesticides manufacturing · Iowa

Valent Biosciences Osage Plant

Name: Valent Biosciences Osage Plant Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Osage, IA · ~102 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Valent Biosciences Osage Plant runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pesticides manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Valent Biosciences Osage Plant: 1.3 TCR = 40% of Pesticides manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valent Biosciences Osage Plant safety composite

Valent Biosciences Osage Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers
DART rate: F 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Valent Biosciences Osage Plant: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2018

Valent Biosciences Osage Plant's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325320 · Osage, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 40% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #2/11
PHOTO Omnium - Blytheville
BOOK 3y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Omnium - Blytheville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valent Bioscie

1.4
This site

1.3
Omnium - Blyth

1.3
BASF Agricultu

1.3
Muscatine, IA

1.3

What this shows Valent Biosciences Osage Plant averages 1.3 TCR (40% of the Pesticides manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Valent Biosciences Osage Plant TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Valent Biosciences Osage Plant falls in its industry

145 Pesticides manufacturing establishments

Safer than 70% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Pesticides manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Valent Biosciences Osage Plant (102 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Valent Biosciences Osage Plant has more employees than the Pesticides manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2018	2.9	1.9	2	1
2017	1.1	1.1	1	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325320 · IA · Osage

145 Pesticides manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 11 employers in Osage, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Omnium - Blytheville	BLYTHEVILLE, AR	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	BASF Agricultural Solutions US LLC	MUSKEGON, MI	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Valent Biosciences Osage	OSAGE, IA	1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Muscatine, IA	MUSCATINE, IA	1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	The Weitz Company - Shared Services Group	DES MOINES	102 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Buresh Building Systems	HAMPTON	102 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Henningsen Const., Inc.	ATLANTIC	102 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Absolute Concrete Construction	SLATER	102 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mitchell County Regional Health Center	Osage	222 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Osage	Osage	144 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mitchell County	Osage	130 FTE
CITY-NEAR	A to Z Drying, Inc.	Osage	126 FTE
NAT-TCR	Fort Myers Plant	Ft. Myers, FL	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Tronox LLC Henderson Facility	Henderson, NV	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Family Health Group, Inc.	Columbia, TN	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ma640-Lpz-Ma640 Boston Wh	Mansfield, MA	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Nestle Nutrition USA, Gateway	Eau Claire, WI	102 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Burnley Workshop Poconos	Scranton, PA	102 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Corpus-Hct-Corpus Christi	Corpus Christi, TX	102 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Solaris Healthcare Daytona Beach	Daytona Beach, FL	102 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.