Butter, creamery and whey, manufacturing · Iowa

Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc.

Independence, IA · ~101 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Butter, creamery and whey, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc.: 6.4 TCR = 193% of Butter, creamery and whey, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. safety composite

Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−8.0

2016→2024

Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. injury rate improved

Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc.'s TCR fell 8.0 from 10.3 in 2016 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.3 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=6.0 · 2021=9.8 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311512 · Independence, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 193% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK P16
  • PHOTO Plant
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plant (0.4 TCR gap)

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Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. averages 6.4 TCR (193% of the Butter, creamery and whey, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. TCR series: 2016=10.3 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=6 · 2021=9.8 · 2023=5.4 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. falls in its industry

32 Butter, creamery and whey, man establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. (101 employees, TCR 6.4) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 23 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc.
Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. (101 employees, TCR 6.4) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. has fewer employees than the Butter, creamery and whey, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 2.3 0.8 3 0 0
2023 5.4 3.9 7 0 0
2021 9.8 6.5 9 3 0
2018 6.0 1.0 5 1 0
2017 4.3 4.3 4 0 0
2016 10.3 9.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311512 · IA · Independence

32 Butter, creamery and whey, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 26 employers in Independence, 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 Plant 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Point Dairy Products, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butterball Farms, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newman 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grinnell, IA-PS 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jordison Construction, Inc 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE WAUKEE IA 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Products Company 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indepedence Store 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geater Machining and Manufacturing, CO 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR INDEPENDENCE PLANT 244 FTE
NAT-TCR Sysco Raleigh 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6935 Flanders Drive San Diego CA 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR O'neil Tent Company 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CE Smith Custom Cabinets & Countertops 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tampa Airport 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kost USA 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Federal Maintenance Hawaii LLC 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ninth Ave Foods 101 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, 2021, 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.