Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard · Iowa

Cedar Rapids Container

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~172 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cedar Rapids Container runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

Cedar Rapids Container: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cedar Rapids Container safety composite

Cedar Rapids Container scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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%).

Cedar Rapids Container held a steady TCR band

Cedar Rapids Container's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.2 in 2019 to 2.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Cedar Rapids, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #5/15
  • PHOTO Vermont Container Corp
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vermont Container Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cedar Rapids Container in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cedar Rapids Container averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

Cedar Rapids Container TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Cedar Rapids Container falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

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 15 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Iowa.

Cedar Rapids Container (172 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate Cedar Rapids Container
Cedar Rapids Container (172 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Cedar Rapids Container has more employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2021 2.3 0.6 4 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.2 1.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IA · Cedar Rapids

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 466 employers in Cedar Rapids, 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 Vermont Container Corp 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lexington Container 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper - Austin 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper - Arden Hills 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE GRIMES IA - 3360 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEDAR FALLS IA - 3302 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wing America Travel Centre 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1787 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE) 6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave 6,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRST EXPEDITED INC 3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Methodist Hospital 2,949 FTE
NAT-TCR Ariel Corporation (Newark) 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Turnagain Marine Construction Corporation 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mirka USA Inc. 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dot Transportation, Inc.- MD 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pacific Shellfish - South Bend 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leviton Lighting 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE CSC Tracy Call Center 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE API Technologies - Fairview Manufacturing 172 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.