Skids and pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Iowa

CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV)

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~96 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV) runs at 642% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Skids and pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV): 21.2 TCR = 642% of Skids and pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV) safety composite

CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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).

F

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 28.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV): 7.3 → 32.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 35.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2020

CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV)'s TCR rose 25.3 from 7.3 in 2016 to 32.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 35.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Cedar Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.2 · 642% of ind

  • DART 28.5 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO Commercial Lumber an…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 93 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Commercial Lumber and Pallet (0.1 TCR gap)

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CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV) averages 21.2 TCR (642% of the Skids and pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV) TCR series: 2016=7.3 · 2017=19.5 · 2018=35.8 · 2019=10.6 · 2020=32.6 · BLS 3.3

Where CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV) falls in its industry

952 Skids and pallets, wood or woo establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Skids and pallets, wood or woo employers in Iowa.

CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV) (96 employees, TCR 21.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV)
CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV) (96 employees, TCR 21.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

CHEP Cedar Rapids Service Center (USIV) has more employees than the Skids and pallets, wood or wood and meta median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2020 32.6 28.5 30 2 0
2019 10.6 8.5 8 2 0
2018 35.8 14.1 31 2 0
2017 19.5 19.5 18 0 0
2016 7.3 7.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · IA · Cedar Rapids

952 Skids and pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, 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 Commercial Lumber and Pallet 21.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gerrity Industries 21.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millwood Inc. - DePere 20.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Challenger Pallet & Supply Inc. Montana 20.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waterloo Service Center 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7123_18981 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Architectural Wall Systems, LLC 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE US093: Indianapolis 331 - SG 96 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 Lakewood Products, Inc. 21.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Monroe 21.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AZN004 21.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 52 Lincoln Ave Wallingford, Ct 06492 21.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE FRHC - Tacoma 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Madison 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lookout Center 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 96 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: 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.