Used merchandise stores · Iowa

Decorah Store

Decorah, IA · ~575 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Decorah Store runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Used merchandise stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Decorah Store: 2.7 TCR = 80% of Used merchandise stores BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Decorah Store safety composite

Decorah Store scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Decorah Store: 0.3 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Decorah Store's TCR rose 10.8 from 0.3 in 2016 to 11.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453310 · Decorah, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 80% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/54
  • PHOTO Warwick (#152)
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~575 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Warwick (#152) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Decorah Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Decorah Store averages 2.7 TCR (80% of the Used merchandise stores BLS benchmark).

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

Decorah Store TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=12.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Decorah Store falls in its industry

1,556 Used merchandise stores establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 54 Used merchandise stores employers in Iowa.

Decorah Store (575 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Decorah Store
Decorah Store (575 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Decorah Store has more employees than the Used merchandise stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 11.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 12.7 12.7 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · IA · Decorah

1,556 Used merchandise stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 38 employers in Decorah, 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 Warwick (#152) 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City Thrift-Jacksonville FL 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manchester Store 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Jordan UT DI 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oelwein Store 575 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dyersville Store 575 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maquoketa Store 575 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decorah Human Services 575 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luther College 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR WinnMed 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR Winneshiek Medical Center 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Infastech 370 FTE
NAT-TCR Lincoln Park Manor, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bytec Resource Management, Inc 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EnerSys Carrollton 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elkin Distribution Center 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Columbia Helicopters 575 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chalmette Refining, L.L.C. 575 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carl Buddig & Company-Montgomery 575 FTE
NAT-SIZE CareSense HC 575 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.