City and town managers' offices · Iowa

City of Cherokee

Cherokee, IA · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Cherokee runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Cherokee: 5.8 TCR = 183% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Cherokee safety composite

City of Cherokee scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City of Cherokee: 4.7 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2023

City of Cherokee's TCR rose 2.2 from 4.7 in 2022 to 7.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Cherokee, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 183% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #10/16
  • PHOTO CITY OF BRISTOL VIRG…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CITY OF BRISTOL VIRGINIA (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Cherokee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Cherokee averages 5.8 TCR (183% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

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

City of Cherokee TCR series: 2022=4.7 · 2023=7 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Cherokee falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 16 City and town managers' office employers in Iowa.

City of Cherokee (45 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Cherokee
City of Cherokee (45 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Cherokee has fewer employees than the City and town managers' offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 7.0 2.3 3 0 0
2022 4.7 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · IA · Cherokee

1,010 City and town managers' offices 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 CITY OF BRISTOL VIRGINIA 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Wilmette 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Livonia 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Robbinsdale 5.8 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 Better Baked Foods/Erie 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-Port Angeles 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 2915 Lumberton Dc and Se Region Retail Office (Nc) 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jabil Packaging Solutions 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clearvue Glass & Mirror Co. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Natchitoches Service Center 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gateway Hotel Santa Monica 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Town Disposal 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, 2022. 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.