General freight trucking, local · Iowa

HDS-Cedar Falls

Cedar Falls, IA · ~41 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HDS-Cedar Falls runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade C.

HDS-Cedar Falls: 5.3 TCR = 117% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HDS-Cedar Falls safety composite

HDS-Cedar Falls scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−2.1

2016→2022

HDS-Cedar Falls injury rate improved

HDS-Cedar Falls's TCR fell 2.1 from 8.4 in 2016 to 6.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.4 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Cedar Falls, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 117% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #24/34
  • PHOTO DMS Moving and Stora…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DMS Moving and Storage (Deerfield Location) (0.0 TCR gap)

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HDS-Cedar Falls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HDS-Cedar Falls averages 5.3 TCR (117% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

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

HDS-Cedar Falls TCR series: 2016=8.4 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=4.2 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=6.2 · BLS 4.5

Where HDS-Cedar Falls falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 34 General freight trucking, loca employers in Iowa.

HDS-Cedar Falls (41 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HDS-Cedar Falls
HDS-Cedar Falls (41 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

HDS-Cedar Falls has fewer employees than the General freight trucking, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 6.2 6.2 3 0 0
2021 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2020 6.4 6.4 4 0 0
2019 4.2 4.2 3 0 0
2018 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2016 8.4 8.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IA · Cedar Falls

2,784 General freight trucking, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 88 employers in Cedar Falls, 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 DMS Moving and Storage (Deerfield Location) 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pitt Ohio - Norristown 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Haulers Hartselle 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ARLOW - SPRINGDALE 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Warehouse 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva-Dallas Center R&D 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Purelight Power of Des Moines 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE North West REC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Waterloo Works Product Engineering Center 1,508 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0590 - Cedar Falls IA DC 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0590 - Cedar Falls DC 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Home Services 752 FTE
NAT-TCR Compton Warehouse 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercury Air Centers Inc - SBA 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HG105 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6768-67680052-PEDC 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE KBI Biopharma - Woodlands 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cargill Giddings 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE AGE Cibolo Corrugated Plant 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6299-MN016 41 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, 2016. 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.