Nursing homes · Iowa

Cherokee Specialty Care

Cherokee, IA · ~45 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cherokee Specialty Care runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade D.

Cherokee Specialty Care: 8.1 TCR = 125% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cherokee Specialty Care safety composite

Cherokee Specialty Care scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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%).

TCR Δ

−12.4

2016→2023

Cherokee Specialty Care injury rate improved

Cherokee Specialty Care's TCR fell 12.4 from 14.9 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.9 · 2017=15.1 · 2019=0.0 · 2023=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Cherokee, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.1 · 125% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #244/396
  • PHOTO Miller's Merry Manor
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Miller's Merry Manor (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cherokee Specialty Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cherokee Specialty Care averages 8.1 TCR (125% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Cherokee Specialty Care TCR series: 2016=14.9 · 2017=15.1 · 2019=0 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 6.5

Where Cherokee Specialty Care falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #244 safest of 396 Nursing homes employers in Iowa.

Cherokee Specialty Care (45 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 Cherokee Specialty Care
Cherokee Specialty Care (45 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Cherokee Specialty Care has fewer employees than the Nursing homes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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
2023 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 15.1 7.5 6 0 0
2016 14.9 7.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IA · Cherokee

15,252 Nursing homes 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 Miller's Merry Manor 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Medilodge of Farmington 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jefferson City Health and Rehabilitation Center 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Marion Nursing Facility - 005 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bushel Boy - Mason City 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amana Farms, Inc. 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Opal Foods Hampton 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Davenport Service Center 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grocery-Cherokee 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherokee Regional Medical Center 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR DHS-Cherokee Mental Health Institute 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truck-Cherokee 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Pacific Seafood-Kodiak, LLC dba Island Fish Co. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Surgery Center Howard 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Villas Del Sol Assistant Living 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR John Moore LLC 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 036-Odessa/42nd St 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE CentraCare Clinic Adult and Pediatric Urology 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kstci - Lenexa Trailer West Reg.-Shop 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ksott - Ottawa 45 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: 2023, 2019, 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.