Dunkirk Ice Cream Plant (Fieldbrook Foods)

Wells Enterprises Inc.

1 Ice Cream Drive, Dunkirk, IA 14048
Ice cream manufacturing (NAICS 311520)

DART 5.20 18 recordable cases · 352 avg employees · 576,780 hours worked

This establishment vs. the industry

The DART rate at this establishment is 1.6× the industry median.

This establishment: 5.20
Industry median (Frozen desserts (except bakery) manufacturing, n=71): 3.26

Reported injury and illness, 2024

Fatalities0 Days-away-from-work cases14 Restricted-duty / transferred cases1 Other recordable cases3 Total recordable cases18 Days lost to injury1,359

Injury rates (per 100 FTE-year, OSHA standard)

DART rate5.20 (days away + restricted/transferred) DAFW rate4.85 (days away from work only) Total recordable rate (TRIR)6.24 (all OSHA-recordable cases) Annual average employees352 Total hours worked576,780
What these numbers mean. An OSHA-recordable case is a work-related injury or illness that resulted in death, days away from work, restricted work, transfer to another job, medical treatment beyond first aid, loss of consciousness, or significant injury diagnosed by a physician. DART rate is the OSHA-standard incidence measure — calculate it as (cases with days away + restricted/transferred) × 200,000 / hours worked. The 200,000 hours normalizes to 100 full-time-equivalent workers over a year. National average DART across all industries is around 1.7; high-risk industries (skilled nursing, warehousing, courier) routinely exceed 5.

Source: OSHA ITA 300A Summary Data, calendar year 2024 filings (downloaded 2026-05-22).

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