General freight trucking, local · Iowa

HDS Cedar Falls

Name: HDS Cedar Falls Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Cedar Falls, IA · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 3.5
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

HDS Cedar Falls runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General freight trucking, local workplace, earning a grade B.

HDS Cedar Falls: 3.5 TCR = 78% of General freight trucking, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HDS Cedar Falls safety composite

HDS Cedar Falls scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

HDS Cedar Falls held a steady TCR band

HDS Cedar Falls's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.4 in 2023 to 3.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.4 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Cedar Falls, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

DART 3.5 DART
RANK #16/34
PHOTO Pacific Cascade Truc…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Cascade Trucking - Tacoma (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows HDS Cedar Falls averages 3.5 TCR (78% of the General freight trucking, local BLS benchmark).

HDS Cedar Falls TCR series: 2023=3.4 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where HDS Cedar Falls falls in its industry

2,784 General freight trucking, loca establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 34 General freight trucking, loca employers in Iowa.

HDS Cedar Falls (36 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 lower 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
2024	3.5	3.5	2	0	0
2023	3.4	1.7	2	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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Pacific Cascade Trucking - Tacoma	TACOMA, WA	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	JAT Trucking	KEWASKUM, WI	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Penske : 4270-00 Knoll-DCM/Allentown, PA	ALLENTOWN, PA	3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Pitt Ohio - Charleston	BELLE, WV	3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	ALGONA MARKET SWINE MANAGEMENT	ALGONA	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Butler County Rural Electric Cooperative	ALLISON	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Algona Municipal Utilities	ALGONA	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Waterloo Water Works	WATERLOO	36 FTE
CITY-NEAR	John Deere Waterloo Works Product Engineering Center	Cedar Falls	1,508 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0590 - Cedar Falls IA DC	Cedar Falls	1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0590 - Cedar Falls DC	Cedar Falls	936 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Western Home Services	Cedar Falls	752 FTE
NAT-TCR	Falcon Contracting, Inc.	Phoenix, AZ	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Drew Transport	Chicago, IL	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Eagle Manufacturing	Wellsburg, WV	3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Camrl - Mira Loma Operations	Mira Loma, CA	3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Green Circle Recycling, LLC	La Crosse, WI	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Power Vac, Inc.	Salina, KS	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Anthony Torres Demolition Corp	Pomona, CA	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	B&L sheet metal and roofing	Bloomington, IN	36 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.