Denatured alcohol manufacturing · Iowa

Valero Renewables Lakota

Lakota, IA · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valero Renewables Lakota runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Valero Renewables Lakota: 0.9 TCR = 29% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valero Renewables Lakota safety composite

Valero Renewables Lakota scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

Valero Renewables Lakota: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Valero Renewables Lakota's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2019 to 2.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Lakota, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/49
  • PHOTO Red River Biorefinery
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Red River Biorefinery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valero Renewables Lakota in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valero Renewables Lakota averages 0.9 TCR (29% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Valero Renewables Lakota TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Valero Renewables Lakota falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 49 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in Iowa.

Valero Renewables Lakota (70 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Valero Renewables Lakota
Valero Renewables Lakota (70 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Valero Renewables Lakota has more employees than the Denatured alcohol manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2021 2.9 0.0 1 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · IA · Lakota

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing 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 Red River Biorefinery 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR POET Bioprocessing -Hudson 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tharaldson Ethanol 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Energy Partners LLC, dba White Energy 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Office 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE GCI Gladbrook 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henkel Construction Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knutson Construction Midwest 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Green Plains Holding II LLC - Lakota 59 FTE
NAT-TCR PPC Brownsville 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hardings Markets 935 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Flexitech-Illinois (BMI) 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bk #3299 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1205 - NSM Evergreen 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adventist HealthCare - Urgent Care Centers 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merrill Gardens at Siena Hills 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Los Angeles Plant 70 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.