Discount Department Stores · Iowa

2526 - Cedar Falls

Cedar Falls, IA · ~145 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

2526 - Cedar Falls runs at 245% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

2526 - Cedar Falls: 8.3 TCR = 245% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2526 - Cedar Falls safety composite

2526 - Cedar Falls scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.7

2019→2024

2526 - Cedar Falls injury rate improved

2526 - Cedar Falls's TCR fell 6.7 from 7.9 in 2019 to 1.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 20.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.9 · 2021=7.9 · 2022=20.0 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Cedar Falls, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 245% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #58/62
  • PHOTO 0688 - Daytona Beach
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0688 - Daytona Beach (0.0 TCR gap)

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2526 - Cedar Falls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 2526 - Cedar Falls averages 8.3 TCR (245% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

2526 - Cedar Falls TCR series: 2019=7.9 · 2021=7.9 · 2022=20 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=1.2 · BLS 3.4

Where 2526 - Cedar Falls falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #58 safest of 62 Discount Department Stores employers in Iowa.

2526 - Cedar Falls (145 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 2526 - Cedar Falls
2526 - Cedar Falls (145 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

2526 - Cedar Falls 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 1.2 1.2 0 1 0
2023 4.7 3.5 2 2 0
2022 20.0 20.0 0 17 0
2021 7.9 6.8 0 7 0
2019 7.9 5.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IA · Cedar Falls

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 88 employers in Cedar Falls, 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 0688 - Daytona Beach 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1083 - Clarkstown 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1337 - Deerfield Beach 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3288 - LA Silver Lake 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE D. C. Taylor Co Corporate 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mittera Iowa 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE US Foods Iowa City 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2662-3029 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Waterloo Works Product Engineering Center 1,508 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0590 - Cedar Falls IA DC 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0590 - Cedar Falls DC 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Home Services 752 FTE
NAT-TCR 1337 - Deerfield Beach 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Grossi Fabrication, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1083 - Clarkstown 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0688 - Daytona Beach 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2297 - Front Royal 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1977 - St Joseph 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1871 - Abingdon 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Insa Easthampton 145 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.