General Warehousing and Storage · Iowa

General Merchandise-Chariton

Chariton, IA · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Merchandise-Chariton runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Warehousing and Storage workplace, earning a grade D.

General Merchandise-Chariton: 11.0 TCR = 190% of General Warehousing and Storage BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Merchandise-Chariton safety composite

General Merchandise-Chariton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

General Merchandise-Chariton: 6.3 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2024

General Merchandise-Chariton's TCR rose 9.4 from 6.3 in 2023 to 15.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Chariton, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 11.0 · 190% of ind

  • DART 13.1 DART
  • RANK #96/102
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - MKE2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Merchandise-Chariton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Merchandise-Chariton averages 11.0 TCR (190% of the General Warehousing and Storage BLS benchmark).

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

General Merchandise-Chariton TCR series: 2023=6.3 · 2024=15.7 · BLS 5.8

Where General Merchandise-Chariton falls in its industry

9,477 General Warehousing and Storag establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #96 safest of 102 General Warehousing and Storag employers in Iowa.

General Merchandise-Chariton (110 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate General Merchandise-Chariton
General Merchandise-Chariton (110 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

General Merchandise-Chariton has more employees than the General Warehousing and Storage median and a higher 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
2024 15.7 13.1 12 0 0
2023 6.3 6.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · IA · Chariton

9,477 General Warehousing and Storage employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 18 employers in Chariton, 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - MKE2 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 980077 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5124 CB ATLANTA DC 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 982358 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux City Neal South 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winnebago County 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE MARSHALLTOWN, IA 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE HARSCO METALS 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grocery-Chariton 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truck-Chariton 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR Produce-Chariton 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lucas County Health Center 206 FTE
NAT-TCR NBCU Catering 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #1678 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Wide Logistics 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Volm Companies, Inc (Pasco, WA) 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ricon-Wabtec 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon Retail LLC - MAI1 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valentine Roofing, LLC 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Heating & Refrigeration 110 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. 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.