Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · Iowa

Hiawatha, Ia

Hiawatha, IA · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hiawatha, Ia runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Hiawatha, Ia: 4.7 TCR = 215% of Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hiawatha, Ia safety composite

Hiawatha, Ia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−3.2

2016→2019

Hiawatha, Ia injury rate improved

Hiawatha, Ia's TCR fell 3.2 from 7.2 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2016 at 7.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.2 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Hiawatha, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 215% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #7/18
  • PHOTO C511 Leland
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C511 Leland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hiawatha, Ia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hiawatha, Ia averages 4.7 TCR (215% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Hiawatha, Ia TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2017=3.8 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=4.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Hiawatha, Ia falls in its industry

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 18 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in Iowa.

Hiawatha, Ia (23 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hiawatha, Ia
Hiawatha, Ia (23 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Hiawatha, Ia has fewer employees than the Other Grocery and Related Products Merch median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2019 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2018 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2017 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2016 7.2 7.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · IA · Hiawatha

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Products 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 C511 Leland 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1964-00420311 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR COLLIERVILLE TN 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7198-00803040 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 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 Hilton Garden Inn 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarksville Operations 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Studio TK 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Faf Lck 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Avery Dennison Dallas DC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleveland Secondary 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roanoke Office 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Speedy Concrete Cutting Orlando 23 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 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.