Industry profile · NAICS 311221
Starches (except laundry) manufacturing
Workplace injury rates across 50 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.
- 50
- Employers
- 2.5
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- BLS benchmark
- 780
- Injuries
The industry picture
Employers in Starches (except laundry) manufacturing average 2.5 recordable injuries per 100 workers, below the BLS national benchmark of 3.3.
- 2.5
- avg TCR · reporting employers
- 3.3
- BLS national benchmark
- 50
- employers reporting
- 780
- recordable injuries
OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.
What Starches (except laundry) manufacturing Safety Data Reveals
The Starches (except laundry) manufacturing sector (NAICS 311221) encompasses 50 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 780 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 2.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.3 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 2.5 is below the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.
The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Starches (except laundry) manufacturing that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.
Employers in this industry, by injury rate
Page 1 of 2| Employer | Location | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van Buren Plant | Van Buren, AR | F | 11.3 |
| PureField Ingredients, Food Ingredients | Russell, KS | F | 8.9 |
| Chemstar Products Company | Carlton, MN | F | 8.8 |
| Manildra Milling Corporation | Hamburg, IA | F | 7.5 |
| Dakota Blenders | St. Louis, MO | D | 6.3 |
| Anderson Custom Processing | Belleville, WI | D | 5.8 |
| PureField Ingredients LLC | Russell, KS | D | 5.8 |
| US Energy Partners, LLC | Russell, KS | D | 5.2 |
| GPC II - Washington | Washington, IN | D | 4.8 |
| Anderson Custom Processing Inc | Little Falls, MN | C | 3.8 |
| Worthington IN | Worthington, IN | C | 3.8 |
| Cargill CSST Memphis | Memphis, TN | C | 3.1 |
| Roquette America - Keokuk | Keokuk, IA | C | 3.1 |
| Peoria Corn Plant | Peoria, IL | C | 2.8 |
| North Kansas City Facility | North Kansas City, MO | B | 2.6 |
| Red Oak IA | Red Oak, IA | B | 2.5 |
| Primient Loudon Plant | Loudon, TN | B | 2.3 |
| GPC - Muscatine | Muscatine, IA | B | 2.1 |
| Sagamore | Lafayette, IN | B | 2.1 |
| Plover Facility | Plover, WI | B | 2.1 |
| Wahpeton Cargill Corn Milling | Wahpeton, ND | B | 2.0 |
| Winston Salem Facility | Winston-Salem, NC | B | 2.0 |
| Cargill, Inc. | Dayton, OH | B | 2.0 |
| Roquette America - Gurnee | Gurnee, IL | B | 1.9 |
| Cargill Inc. North American Sweeteners | Dayton, OH | B | 1.8 |
| Cedar Rapids Wet Mill | Cedar Rapids, IA | B | 1.7 |
| Tate and Lyle Ingredients | Lafayette, IN | B | 1.7 |
| Tate & Lyle, Lafayette South | Lafayette, IN | A | 1.6 |
| Richland Facility | Richland, WA | A | 1.5 |
| Indianapolis Facility | Indianapolis, IN | A | 1.5 |
| Wacker Chemical Corporation, Eddyville | Eddyville, IA | A | 1.5 |
| Cargill, Memphis | Memphis, TN | A | 1.4 |
| Marshall Corn Plant | Marshall, MN | A | 1.4 |
| Decatur Corn Plant | Decatur, IL | A | 1.3 |
| Cargill Corn Milling | Wahpeton, ND | A | 1.3 |
| Tate and Lyle | Decatur, IL | A | 1.2 |
| Tate & Lyle Loudon Plant | Loudon, TN | A | 1.2 |
| Cargill | Blair, NE | A | 1.2 |
| Cargill Eddyville Iowa | Eddyville, IA | A | 1.2 |
| Cargill CSST | Cedar Rapids, IA | A | 1.1 |
| Cedar Rapids Facility | Cedar Rapids, IA | A | 1.1 |
| Clinton Corn Plant | Clinton, IA | A | 1.0 |
| Argo Facility | Bedford Park, IL | A | 0.9 |
| Cedar Rapids Dry Mill | Cedar Rapids, IA | A | 0.9 |
| Cargill Eddyville | Eddyville, IA | A | 0.8 |
| Wacker Chemical Corporation | Eddyville, IA | A | 0.7 |
| Columbus Corn Plant | Columbus, NE | A | 0.7 |
| Cedar Rapids Corn | Cedar Rapids, IA | A | 0.7 |
| Cargill Texturizing Solutions | Hammond, IN | A | 0.6 |
| Primient - Lafayette Plant | Lafayette, IN | A | 0.6 |
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