Coated board made in paperboard mills · Iowa

Cedar River Mill

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~238 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cedar River Mill runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Coated board made in paperboard mills workplace, earning a grade A.

Cedar River Mill: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Coated board made in paperboard mills BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cedar River Mill safety composite

Cedar River Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Cedar River Mill: 0.8 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2024

Cedar River Mill's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.8 in 2016 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322130 · Cedar Rapids, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK P71
  • PHOTO International Paper-…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~238 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: International Paper-Newport Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cedar River Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cedar River Mill averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Coated board made in paperboard mills BLS benchmark).

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

Cedar River Mill TCR series: 2016=0.8 · 2017=0.4 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Cedar River Mill falls in its industry

181 Coated board made in paperboar establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cedar River Mill (238 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Cedar River Mill
Cedar River Mill (238 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 138 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Cedar River Mill has more employees than the Coated board made in paperboard mills median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 1.8 1.5 4 1 0
2023 0.7 0.4 2 0 0
2022 1.5 1.1 4 0 0
2021 1.1 0.4 2 1 0
2020 1.1 0.7 3 0 0
2019 1.9 0.8 2 3 0
2018 2.3 0.8 2 4 0
2017 0.4 0.0 0 1 0
2016 0.8 0.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322130 · IA · Cedar Rapids

181 Coated board made in paperboard mills 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 International Paper-Newport Mill 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper - Louisville Container 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alliance Sheets, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Converted Products 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stanley Infrastructure 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mechdyne Marshalltown 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Seating 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE COUNCIL BLUFFS IA - 3384 238 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 Spokane Parts Distribution Center 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Asf 401 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Deer Park Energy Center 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ready Electric Company Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mid-States Concrete Industries 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE VDF Riverview Campus 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterville 7 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penn United Technologies, Inc (Building 7 Location) 238 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.