Criminal investigation offices, government · Iowa

Cedar County Sheriff's Office

Tipton, IA · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cedar County Sheriff's Office runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Criminal investigation offices, government workplace, earning a grade D.

Cedar County Sheriff's Office: 3.9 TCR = 120% of Criminal investigation offices, government BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cedar County Sheriff's Office safety composite

Cedar County Sheriff's Office scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−2.5

2023→2024

Cedar County Sheriff's Office injury rate improved

Cedar County Sheriff's Office's TCR fell 2.5 from 5.1 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.1 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Tipton, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 120% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #3/18
  • PHOTO City of Paducah - Po…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Paducah - Police (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cedar County Sheriff's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cedar County Sheriff's Office averages 3.9 TCR (120% of the Criminal investigation offices, government BLS benchmark).

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

Cedar County Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2023=5.1 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Cedar County Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

716 Criminal investigation offices establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 18 Criminal investigation offices employers in Iowa.

Cedar County Sheriff's Office (43 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Cedar County Sheriff's Office
Cedar County Sheriff's Office (43 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Cedar County Sheriff's Office has fewer employees than the Criminal investigation offices, governme median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 2.6 2.6 0 1 0
2023 5.1 5.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IA · Tipton

716 Criminal investigation offices, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 15 employers in Tipton, 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 City of Paducah - Police 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheriff's Office 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR District 2 (Police) 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Public Safety (23) 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Centrum Valley Farms North 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burlington 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Koester Construction Company Incorporated 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial Contracting Services 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cedar County 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDS Global Tipton 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 841 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR 841 70 FTE
NAT-TCR McAllen 10258 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR AMI Metals KS 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Martinrea INC Jonesville 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Racine Metal-Fab, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sircal Contracting, Inc. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mauser Packaging Solutions 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ord Cst 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oswego Harbor Power 43 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.

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

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