Luncheon meat, poultry, manufacturing · Iowa

West Liberty Foods

Mount Pleasant, IA · ~296 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Liberty Foods runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Luncheon meat, poultry, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

West Liberty Foods: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Luncheon meat, poultry, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Liberty Foods safety composite

West Liberty Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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)
D 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−2.7

2021→2023

West Liberty Foods injury rate improved

West Liberty Foods's TCR fell 2.7 from 5.3 in 2021 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.3 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Mount Pleasant, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Sanderson Farms Hazl…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~296 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Processing (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Liberty Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Liberty Foods averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Luncheon meat, poultry, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

West Liberty Foods TCR series: 2021=5.3 · 2022=4.6 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where West Liberty Foods falls in its industry

509 Luncheon meat, poultry, manufa establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #2 safest of 5 Luncheon meat, poultry, manufa employers in Iowa.

West Liberty Foods (296 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate West Liberty Foods
West Liberty Foods (296 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

West Liberty Foods has fewer employees than the Luncheon meat, poultry, manufacturing 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
2023 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2022 4.6 2.9 12 2 0
2021 5.3 4.6 16 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · IA · Mount Pleasant

509 Luncheon meat, poultry, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 30 employers in Mount Pleasant, 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 Sanderson Farms Hazlehurst Processing 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DG Foods, LLC Hazlehurst 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diestel Turkey Ranch 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arkansas Plant 1 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Clysar LLC 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE EAST PENN CORYDON 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5748 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eggs-Mason City IA 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6009 679 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility 608 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6009 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearth & Home Technologies MTP 379 FTE
NAT-TCR Silver Springs Construction, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bush Brothers & Company 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR POET Biorefining - Shelbyville 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Outlook nebraska 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Granger Construction 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hastings College - Hastings, NE 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bowser Automotive, Inc. 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco Arkansas 296 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.