Collecting and distributing agents, laundry and drycleaning · Iowa

Century Laundry Distributing

Hiawatha, IA · ~21 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Century Laundry Distributing runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Collecting and distributing agents, laundry and drycleaning workplace, earning a grade D.

Century Laundry Distributing: 4.1 TCR = 194% of Collecting and distributing agents, laundry and drycleaning BLS 2.1 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Century Laundry Distributing safety composite

Century Laundry Distributing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Century Laundry Distributing: 0.0 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Century Laundry Distributing's TCR rose 8.2 from 0.0 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812320 · Hiawatha, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 194% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK P45
  • PHOTO WellStar Laundry Ser…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WellStar Laundry Services (0.1 TCR gap)

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Century Laundry Distributing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Century Laundry Distributing averages 4.1 TCR (194% of the Collecting and distributing agents, laundry and drycleaning BLS benchmark).

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

Century Laundry Distributing TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=10.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=4 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 2.1

Where Century Laundry Distributing falls in its industry

193 Collecting and distributing ag establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Century Laundry Distributing (21 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Century Laundry Distributing
Century Laundry Distributing (21 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Century Laundry Distributing has fewer employees than the Collecting and distributing agents, laun median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 8.2 4.1 2 0 0
2023 8.6 8.6 2 0 0
2022 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 10.2 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812320 · IA · Hiawatha

193 Collecting and distributing agents, laundry and drycleaning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 54 employers in Hiawatha, 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 WellStar Laundry Services 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capitol Cleaners 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sudsies Inc 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLS - Clermont 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Audubon Vet Clinic 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Handlos South 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE VALO BioMedia NA, LLC. Adel Farm 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE K & B Ag Supply 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR CCB Packaging 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR HAWKEYE AREA COMM ACTION PROGRAM, INC 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR CEC 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crystal Group Inc 240 FTE
NAT-TCR Belle Maison Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Joseph Manor Healthcare 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tifton Project 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Elixir Extursions LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Straval Machine 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brenner Recycling 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE H Nu Solar LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vortec Tooling Solutions, Inc. 21 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.