Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing · Iowa

Wayland Feed Mill

Wayland, IA · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wayland Feed Mill runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Wayland Feed Mill: 7.0 TCR = 180% of Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wayland Feed Mill safety composite

Wayland Feed Mill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Wayland Feed Mill: 4.4 → 12.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2019

Wayland Feed Mill's TCR rose 8.6 from 4.4 in 2016 to 12.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Wayland, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 180% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #46/62
  • PHOTO Bergman Feed Mill
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bergman Feed Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wayland Feed Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wayland Feed Mill averages 7.0 TCR (180% of the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wayland Feed Mill TCR series: 2016=4.4 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=12.9 · BLS 3.9

Where Wayland Feed Mill falls in its industry

756 Animal feed mills (except dog establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 62 Animal feed mills (except dog employers in Iowa.

Wayland Feed Mill (22 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Wayland Feed Mill
Wayland Feed Mill (22 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Wayland Feed Mill has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2019 12.9 8.6 3 0 0
2018 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2016 4.4 4.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Wayland

756 Animal feed mills (except dog and cat) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 3 employers in Wayland, 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 Bergman Feed Mill 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson Hay & Grain Co., Inc. - Ellensburg, WA 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wenger Feeds - Shippensburg Mill 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wenger Feeds - Mount Joy Mill 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR PARKVIEW HOME 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR MD Orthopaedics, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-TCR Regal 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR First Class Packaging 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carolina Technical Plastics Corp. 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 8451 Pearl Street Operating Company, LLC d/b/a Vibra Hospital of Denver 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 063 ABC Supply Co., Inc 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE DBA Ashley Furniture Homestores- Milpitas 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE DBA Ashley Furniture Homestores- Redding 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE 188 ABC Supply Co., Inc 22 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: 2019, 2018, 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.