Bricks (except refractory) merchant wholesalers · Iowa

Hiawatha

Hiawatha, IA · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hiawatha runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Bricks (except refractory) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Hiawatha: 0.8 TCR = 39% of Bricks (except refractory) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hiawatha safety composite

Hiawatha scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hiawatha: 0.0 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Hiawatha's TCR rose 1.3 from 0.0 in 2020 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423320 · Hiawatha, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P93
  • PHOTO Capital Cities Leasi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Capital Cities Leasing Corp. Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hiawatha in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hiawatha averages 0.8 TCR (39% of the Bricks (except refractory) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hiawatha TCR series: 2020=0 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Hiawatha falls in its industry

158 Bricks (except refractory) mer establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Hiawatha (58 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hiawatha
Hiawatha (58 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Hiawatha has more employees than the Bricks (except refractory) merchant whol median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423320 · IA · Hiawatha

158 Bricks (except refractory) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 54 employers in Hiawatha, 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 Capital Cities Leasing Corp. Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Construction Services Houston South 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boral Resources- Oak Grove 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Asphalt & Ready Mix 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Oakridge 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Area Office 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE JB Holland Construction, Inc. 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR CCB Packaging 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR HAWKEYE AREA COMM ACTION PROGRAM, INC 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR CEC 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crystal Group Inc 240 FTE
NAT-TCR We Make Autism at Work Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Housing Community Development 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tulsa 10014 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Westland 10226 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 100% Made in the USA Bully Tools. Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cactus Feedyard 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Select Painting & Construction Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carolina Container Prince George 58 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, 2020. 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.