Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing · Iowa

Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker)

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~937 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker) runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker): 1.7 TCR = 53% of Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker) safety composite

Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.0

2016→2022

Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker) injury rate improved

Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker)'s TCR fell 1.0 from 2.2 in 2016 to 1.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.2 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=3.0 · 2022=1.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311230 · Cedar Rapids, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Northfield North Dis…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~937 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northfield North Distribution Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker) averages 1.7 TCR (53% of the Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker) TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=3 · 2022=1.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker) falls in its industry

60 Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 8 Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing employers in Iowa.

Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker) (937 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker)
Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker) (937 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Cedar Rapids Ia (Quaker) has more employees than the Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2022 1.2 0.7 12 1 0
2020 3.0 2.8 10 23 0
2019 1.3 0.6 13 0 0
2018 1.5 1.3 15 0 0
2017 1.3 1.0 13 0 0
2016 2.2 1.3 20 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311230 · IA · Cedar Rapids

60 Breakfast Cereal 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 Northfield North Distribution Center 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Asheboro Mill 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Campbell Mill Northfield MN 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills Cedar Rapids Iowa 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 0590 - Cedar Falls DC 936 FTE
STATE-SIZE CC 300590 CEDAR RAPIDS PLT 935 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa City North Dodge (ICND) 940 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Lutheran Hospital 941 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 S.M. Lawrence 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Boston 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Exxonmobil-Granite Cafe 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at George Washington Hos-Starbuck 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ascend Performance Materials-Pensacola 937 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southeast Concrete Construction 937 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mediacom Coastal Region 937 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Francis Regional 937 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.