Corn starch manufacturing · Iowa

Cedar Rapids Facility

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~183 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cedar Rapids Facility runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Corn starch manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Cedar Rapids Facility: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Corn starch manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cedar Rapids Facility safety composite

Cedar Rapids Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Cedar Rapids Facility: 1.3 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.42× in 2024

Cedar Rapids Facility's TCR rose 2.6 from 1.3 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311221 · Cedar Rapids, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #6/14
  • PHOTO Cargill CSST
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~183 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill CSST (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cedar Rapids Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cedar Rapids Facility averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Corn starch manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cedar Rapids Facility TCR series: 2016=1.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.6 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Cedar Rapids Facility falls in its industry

53 Corn starch manufacturing establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 14 Corn starch manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Cedar Rapids Facility (183 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Cedar Rapids Facility
Cedar Rapids Facility (183 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Cedar Rapids Facility has fewer employees than the Corn starch manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 3.8 2.6 6 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.8 0.6 3 0 0
2019 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 1.3 1.3 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311221 · IA · Cedar Rapids

53 Corn starch manufacturing 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 Cargill CSST 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clinton Corn Plant 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Eddyville Iowa 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE YOUNGLOVE CONSTRUCTION L.L.C. 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reilly Construction Co. Inc. 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seedorff Masonry, Inc. 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Billion Chevrolet Buick GMC Cadillac 183 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 Miller Insulation Bismarck Branch 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR CAPS Philadelphia 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nixco Plumbing Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Grapevine Mills Store #2101 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Texas Rehab Hospital of Arlington 6789 - 4086 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maywood 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Friends Fellowship Community, Inc. 183 FTE
NAT-SIZE Addison 183 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.