Employer · Iowa

Childcare Johnston

Johnston, IA · ~41 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Childcare Johnston runs at 231% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Childcare Johnston: 8.8 TCR = 231% of industry BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Childcare Johnston safety composite

Childcare Johnston scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Childcare Johnston: 6.9 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2017

Childcare Johnston's TCR rose 3.9 from 6.9 in 2016 to 10.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624410 · Johnston, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 231% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO New Horizon Academy …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Horizon Academy #1012 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Childcare Johnston in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Childcare Johnston averages 8.8 TCR (231% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Childcare Johnston TCR series: 2016=6.9 · 2017=10.7 · BLS 3.8

Where Childcare Johnston falls in its industry

272 industry establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 industry employers in Iowa.

Childcare Johnston (41 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Childcare Johnston
Childcare Johnston (41 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Childcare Johnston has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2017 10.7 10.7 3 0 0
2016 6.9 3.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624410 · IA · Johnston

272 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 76 employers in Johnston, 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 New Horizon Academy #1012 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Horizon Academy #31 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Walnut Hills 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Early Education Program-Vine 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Warehouse 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva-Dallas Center R&D 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Purelight Power of Des Moines 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE North West REC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Financial Johnston 1,069 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSC 639 FTE
CITY-NEAR ChildServe Center 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR DuPont Pioneer Johnston Campus - JH60 Franklin 486 FTE
NAT-TCR Cass City Center (Micsc) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bwi Airport (Mdbwi) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR F.G. Rayburn Mason Contractors, Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Francis Hospital 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Fayette Inc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of East Prairie Inc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Advance Inc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3853 Wheel Fix IT 41 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.