Waste recovery facilities · Iowa

Cedar Poly, LLC

Tipton, IA · ~35 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cedar Poly, LLC runs at 349% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Waste recovery facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Cedar Poly, LLC: 9.1 TCR = 349% of Waste recovery facilities BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cedar Poly, LLC safety composite

Cedar Poly, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−1.1

2016→2021

Cedar Poly, LLC injury rate improved

Cedar Poly, LLC's TCR fell 1.1 from 15.2 in 2016 to 14.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2016 at 15.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=15.2 · 2017=6.4 · 2020=0.5 · 2021=14.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562920 · Tipton, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 349% of ind

  • DART 14.1 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Airmont
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Airmont (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cedar Poly, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cedar Poly, LLC averages 9.1 TCR (349% of the Waste recovery facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Cedar Poly, LLC TCR series: 2016=15.2 · 2017=6.4 · 2020=0.5 · 2021=14.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Cedar Poly, LLC falls in its industry

422 Waste recovery facilities establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Waste recovery facilities employers in Iowa.

Cedar Poly, LLC (35 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cedar Poly, LLC
Cedar Poly, LLC (35 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Cedar Poly, LLC has fewer employees than the Waste recovery facilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2021 14.1 14.1 5 0 0
2020 0.5 0.5 3 0 0
2017 6.4 0.0 2 0 0
2016 15.2 3.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562920 · IA · Tipton

422 Waste recovery facilities 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 Airmont 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marpan Recycling LLC 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ecovery, LLC 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cascade Asset Management - Indianapolis 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE IA17-SEL-OSCEOLA HATCHERY' 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience - Algona Research - ALG2 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE JFSNA at ADM Cedar Rapids 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE On Track Construction, LLC 35 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 Store 1938 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Britton Panel Mfg & NexGen Admin Office 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Lake Worth 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CareGivers America Home Health Services, LLC Clarks Summit 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Alleen Company 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dixie - Odessa 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redstone Park 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williamsburg (#140) 35 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: 2021, 2020, 2017, 2016. 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.