332710 Machine Shops · Iowa

Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids

Hiawatha, IA · ~29 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical 332710 Machine Shops workplace, earning a grade C.

Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids: 3.2 TCR = 96% of 332710 Machine Shops BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids safety composite

Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.9

2018→2022

Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids injury rate improved

Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids's TCR fell 2.9 from 2.9 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.9 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=9.6 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Hiawatha, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 96% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/30
  • PHOTO Ambridge Plant
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ambridge Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids averages 3.2 TCR (96% of the 332710 Machine Shops BLS benchmark).

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

Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids TCR series: 2018=2.9 · 2019=3.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=9.6 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids falls in its industry

1,821 332710 Machine Shops establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 30 332710 Machine Shops employers in Iowa.

Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids (29 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids
Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids (29 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cope Plastics, Inc. - Cedar Rapids has fewer employees than the 332710 Machine Shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 9.6 9.6 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2018 2.9 2.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · IA · Hiawatha

1,821 332710 Machine Shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 54 employers in Hiawatha, 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 Ambridge Plant 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Military Systems Group, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Applied Solutions Group (ASG) : Wakefield - Nashua 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lee Manufacturing 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE FDML Forest City 0016 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dogwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwood Sow Unit 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Montgomery Valley Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR CCB Packaging 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR HAWKEYE AREA COMM ACTION PROGRAM, INC 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR CEC 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crystal Group Inc 240 FTE
NAT-TCR Twin Rivers Technologies 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 305 - Knoxville West 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cornerstone Painting Contractors Inc. HQ 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Maverick Carlisle, PA 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Emergency Medical Services 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kross Kut LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Killian Pacific 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE UGI Central Penn Gas Wellsboro 29 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.