Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Cambrex Charles City, Inc.

Charles City, IA · ~366 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cambrex Charles City, Inc. runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Cambrex Charles City, Inc.: 1.1 TCR = 48% of Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cambrex Charles City, Inc. safety composite

Cambrex Charles City, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

Cambrex Charles City, Inc.: 0.8 → 1.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.48× in 2023

Cambrex Charles City, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 0.8 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424210 · Charles City, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #1/8
  • PHOTO Salon Service Group
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~366 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Salon Service Group (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cambrex Charles City, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cambrex Charles City, Inc. averages 1.1 TCR (48% of the Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cambrex Charles City, Inc. TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=1.1 · 2019=0.8 · 2023=1.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Cambrex Charles City, Inc. falls in its industry

514 Druggists' sundries merchant w establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 8 Druggists' sundries merchant w employers in Iowa.

Cambrex Charles City, Inc. (366 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02004006008001,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Cambrex Charles City, Inc.
Cambrex Charles City, Inc. (366 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Cambrex Charles City, Inc. has more employees than the Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2023 1.5 0.5 3 3 0
2019 0.8 0.5 2 1 0
2017 1.1 0.6 3 1 0
2016 0.8 0.8 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424210 · IA · Charles City

514 Druggists' sundries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 25 employers in Charles 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 Salon Service Group 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warrendale D036 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chantecaille Beaute 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GlaxoSmithKline Field & Remote 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Ice Cream Plant 366 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 559 366 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH62 Crick 367 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orange City Area Health System 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Simply Essentials 482 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis LLC. 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR FLOYD COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winnebago Industries - Charles City 166 FTE
NAT-TCR Spring Hills Home Care Services - OH, LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandSafway Services, LLC - Anchorage Branch 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Technologies Group (ITG) : Pettibone - Main 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR UI 9022 (SCE Rancho - C) 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CO-OP Memeber Center 366 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Syracuse 366 FTE
NAT-SIZE California 366 FTE
NAT-SIZE CalArk, Inc. 366 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: 2023, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.