Department Store · Iowa

501 Cedar Falls

Cedar Falls, IA · ~73 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

501 Cedar Falls runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Department Store workplace, earning a grade D.

501 Cedar Falls: 6.6 TCR = 193% of Department Store BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

501 Cedar Falls safety composite

501 Cedar Falls scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−2.0

2023→2024

501 Cedar Falls injury rate improved

501 Cedar Falls's TCR fell 2.0 from 7.6 in 2023 to 5.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.6 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Cedar Falls, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 193% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #41/47
  • PHOTO 3880 - West Jefferso…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3880 - West Jefferson FDC (0.0 TCR gap)

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501 Cedar Falls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 501 Cedar Falls averages 6.6 TCR (193% of the Department Store BLS benchmark).

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

501 Cedar Falls TCR series: 2023=7.6 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 501 Cedar Falls falls in its industry

2,917 Department Store establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 47 Department Store employers in Iowa.

501 Cedar Falls (73 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 501 Cedar Falls
501 Cedar Falls (73 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

501 Cedar Falls has fewer employees than the Department Store median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 5.6 2.8 2 0 0
2023 7.6 5.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · IA · Cedar Falls

2,917 Department Store 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 3880 - West Jefferson FDC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9478 - Tucson TFC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 218 Portage 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1287 - Lake Park 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lone Tree 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Field Services (Public Services, Parks & Signs/Signals 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Caruth Construction Inc. 73 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 ACHIEVE Human Services, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Maryland Paper Company 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacur LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Short North Stage 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Residence at Freeman Lake 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rose Metal Products 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altercare Newark North 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Windsor Surry Company 73 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. 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.