Chicken egg production · Iowa

VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm

Adel, IA · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm runs at 175% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chicken egg production workplace, earning a grade D.

VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm: 7.9 TCR = 175% of Chicken egg production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm safety composite

VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2023→2024

VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm injury rate improved

VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm's TCR fell 2.4 from 9.0 in 2023 to 6.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.0 · 2024=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112310 · Adel, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 175% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/36
  • PHOTO Centrum Valley Dows
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Centrum Valley Dows (0.0 TCR gap)

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VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm averages 7.9 TCR (175% of the Chicken egg production BLS benchmark).

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

VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm TCR series: 2023=9 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 4.5

Where VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm falls in its industry

351 Chicken egg production establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

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 36 Chicken egg production employers in Iowa.

VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm (21 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm
VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm (21 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1

VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm has fewer employees than the Chicken egg production median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 Fatalities
2024 6.7 0.0 1 0 0
2023 9.0 9.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112310 · IA · Adel

351 Chicken egg production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 12 employers in Adel, 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 Centrum Valley Dows 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm 88 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charles River Avian Roanoke 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bozrah 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Audubon Vet Clinic 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos South 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE K & B Ag Supply 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Avoca Service Center 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dallas County, Iowa 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dallas County 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 124 ADEL 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dallas County Service Center 105 FTE
NAT-TCR Greensboro Homewood 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pazel - Zelienople Facility 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Txant - San Antonio Hub 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR South Hills 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Town of Forest City - Fire Department 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE M.E. Industries, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE UTS Maritime Services, LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4505 - Valley Treating Plant 21 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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