General Warehousing and Storage · Iowa

General Merchandise-Cherokee

Cherokee, IA · ~99 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

General Merchandise-Cherokee runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Warehousing and Storage workplace, earning a grade D.

General Merchandise-Cherokee: 10.9 TCR = 189% of General Warehousing and Storage BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

General Merchandise-Cherokee safety composite

General Merchandise-Cherokee scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−12.5

2023→2024

General Merchandise-Cherokee injury rate improved

General Merchandise-Cherokee's TCR fell 12.5 from 17.2 in 2023 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=17.2 · 2024=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Cherokee, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 10.9 · 189% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #95/102
  • PHOTO B89
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: B89 (0.0 TCR gap)

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General Merchandise-Cherokee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows General Merchandise-Cherokee averages 10.9 TCR (189% 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-Cherokee TCR series: 2023=17.2 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 5.8

Where General Merchandise-Cherokee 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 #95 safest of 102 General Warehousing and Storag employers in Iowa.

General Merchandise-Cherokee (99 employees, TCR 10.9) 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-Cherokee
General Merchandise-Cherokee (99 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

General Merchandise-Cherokee 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 4.7 4.7 2 0 0
2023 17.2 17.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · IA · Cherokee

9,477 General Warehousing and Storage 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 B89 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DCA6 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - STL3 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dillard Store Services, Inc. 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Guthrie Center Egg Farm 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grinnell, IA-FND 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iowa Civil Contracting, Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE D. C. Taylor Co Cedar Rapids- Iowa 99 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 BAKERY 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Donalsonville Hospital 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Detroit Lakes EMS 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Metals, Inc. 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rieth-Riley - Lafayette 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pride Delivery Services, LLC 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wellspring Inc. 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Obrien's Moving and Storage 99 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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