Discount Department Stores · Iowa

0804 - Mason City

Mason City, IA · ~238 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0804 - Mason City runs at 255% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0804 - Mason City: 8.7 TCR = 255% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0804 - Mason City safety composite

0804 - Mason City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

0804 - Mason City: 3.9 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 18.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2024

0804 - Mason City's TCR rose 0.6 from 3.9 in 2019 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 18.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Mason City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 255% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #60/62
  • PHOTO 2144 - Steeplechase
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~238 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2144 - Steeplechase (0.0 TCR gap)

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0804 - Mason City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0804 - Mason City averages 8.7 TCR (255% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0804 - Mason City TCR series: 2019=3.9 · 2021=7.7 · 2022=18.1 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 0804 - Mason City falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 62 Discount Department Stores employers in Iowa.

0804 - Mason City (238 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0804 - Mason City
0804 - Mason City (238 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0804 - Mason City has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 4.5 3.6 5 0 0
2023 9.3 7.8 7 5 0
2022 18.1 16.4 7 14 0
2021 7.7 6.1 3 7 0
2019 3.9 3.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IA · Mason City

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 126 employers in Mason City, 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 2144 - Steeplechase 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1040 - Vista North University Drive 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1279 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0205 - Kearny Mesa 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cedar River Mill 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stanley Infrastructure 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechdyne Marshalltown 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Seating 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center East Campus 1,592 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Mason City-MHS-IA/NE 1,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center 1,556 FTE
CITY-NEAR CURRIES 683 FTE
NAT-TCR 2144 - Steeplechase 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallastown Area SD 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Sterling Heights 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction Ventures, Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0746 - Kendall 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1436 - Ward Parkway 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2319 - Signal Hill 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2457 - Rapid City 238 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.