General Warehousing and Storage · Iowa

Grocery-Cherokee

Cherokee, IA · ~307 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grocery-Cherokee runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Warehousing and Storage workplace, earning a grade D.

Grocery-Cherokee: 7.0 TCR = 120% of General Warehousing and Storage BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grocery-Cherokee safety composite

Grocery-Cherokee scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

2023→2024

Grocery-Cherokee injury rate improved

Grocery-Cherokee's TCR fell 2.9 from 8.4 in 2023 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.4 · 2024=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 120% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #82/102
  • PHOTO Amazon.com Services …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~307 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amazon.com Services LLC - FTW8 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Grocery-Cherokee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grocery-Cherokee averages 7.0 TCR (120% 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

Grocery-Cherokee TCR series: 2023=8.4 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 5.8

Where Grocery-Cherokee falls in its industry

9,477 General Warehousing and Storag establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #82 safest of 102 General Warehousing and Storag employers in Iowa.

Grocery-Cherokee (307 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 Grocery-Cherokee
Grocery-Cherokee (307 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Grocery-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 5.5 5.0 11 0 0
2023 8.4 7.1 19 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - FTW8 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Food Bank of Eastern Michigan 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JLG - Clinton, PA 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ADUSA Dist DC 09 Butner NC 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sheldon Facility 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pure Fishing - Spirit Lake 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE 797 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mom's Meals Logistics 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
CITY-NEAR General Merchandise-Cherokee 99 FTE
NAT-TCR Attitash Mountain Service Co., LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Holy Angels, Inc 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Life Care Centers of America Inc dba Life Care Center of Yuma 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Metal Fab, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE TruWest Company 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wabash New Lisbon 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Medical City Green Oaks 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE ETP Orlando 307 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.