Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Iowa

Cherokee Regional Medical Center

Cherokee, IA · ~299 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cherokee Regional Medical Center runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

Cherokee Regional Medical Center: 6.5 TCR = 86% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cherokee Regional Medical Center safety composite

Cherokee Regional Medical Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

−10.8

2021→2024

Cherokee Regional Medical Center injury rate improved

Cherokee Regional Medical Center's TCR fell 10.8 from 15.0 in 2021 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=15.0 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Cherokee, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 6.5 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #128/160
  • PHOTO 388 TEXAS REG MED …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~299 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 388 TEXAS REG MED CTR AT SUNNYVALE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cherokee Regional Medical Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cherokee Regional Medical Center averages 6.5 TCR (86% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

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

Cherokee Regional Medical Center TCR series: 2021=15 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 7.5

Where Cherokee Regional Medical Center falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #128 safest of 160 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Iowa.

Cherokee Regional Medical Center (299 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cherokee Regional Medical Center
Cherokee Regional Medical Center (299 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Cherokee Regional Medical Center has fewer employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 4.2 0.4 11 0 0
2023 2.9 0.0 5 3 0
2022 3.8 1.7 9 0 0
2021 15.0 0.0 37 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · IA · Cherokee

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 24 employers in Cherokee, 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 388 TEXAS REG MED CTR AT SUNNYVALE 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garfield Memorial Hospital 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0206-02620651 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCLEOD-SEACOAST MEDICAL CTR 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE US08 Underwood Link Snacks Inc. 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Health Care, Inc. 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Exceptional Persons, Inc. 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mary Ann's Specialty Foods 301 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grocery-Cherokee 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR DHS-Cherokee Mental Health Institute 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truck-Cherokee 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Merchandise-Cherokee 99 FTE
NAT-TCR Homer Glen Il - 3189 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Glendale Heights Il - 3175 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmond 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fayette Janitorial LLC- Cargill North Kingstown 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nosco - PIC 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acutec Precision Aerospace, Inc. Meadville 1 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cadillac Place - Leo 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 299 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.