Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in crushing mills · Iowa

ZFS Creston, LLC

Creston, IA · ~51 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ZFS Creston, LLC runs at 316% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in crushing mills workplace, earning a grade F.

ZFS Creston, LLC: 10.4 TCR = 316% of Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in crushing mills BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ZFS Creston, LLC safety composite

ZFS Creston, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

−3.7

2018→2021

ZFS Creston, LLC injury rate improved

ZFS Creston, LLC's TCR fell 3.7 from 17.2 in 2018 to 13.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=17.2 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=13.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311224 · Creston, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 316% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #31/32
  • PHOTO VALLEY COOP OIL MILL
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VALLEY COOP OIL MILL (0.1 TCR gap)

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ZFS Creston, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ZFS Creston, LLC averages 10.4 TCR (316% of the Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in crushing mills BLS benchmark).

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

ZFS Creston, LLC TCR series: 2018=17.2 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=13.5 · BLS 3.3

Where ZFS Creston, LLC falls in its industry

146 Soybean oil, cake, and meal, m establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 32 Soybean oil, cake, and meal, m employers in Iowa.

ZFS Creston, LLC (51 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ZFS Creston, LLC
ZFS Creston, LLC (51 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.7

ZFS Creston, LLC has fewer employees than the Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in cru median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 13.5 9.6 7 0 0
2020 5.7 0.0 3 0 0
2019 5.4 3.6 2 1 0
2018 17.2 10.3 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311224 · IA · Creston

146 Soybean oil, cake, and meal, made in crushing mills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 35 employers in Creston, 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 VALLEY COOP OIL MILL 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adams Vegetable Oils 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Montana Specialty Mills Great Falls 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AG Processing Inc 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allendan Seed Company 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Truck Wash 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Marion Research MRN1 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRS OSI Gen Repair Svc Wind Plt 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Townline 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greater Regional Health 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greater Regional Medical Center 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foundry 353 FTE
NAT-TCR All American Nursing Home 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Keith Titus Corp- Oswego Location 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Oneonta,NY 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosewalk Village of Lafayette 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn & Suites Charleston West 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dick Houston Plumbing & Heating, Inc. 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dept. of Health & Social Services (45) 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unique Thrift Store-132jama 51 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, 2018. 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.