Used merchandise stores · Iowa

Indepedence Store

Independence, IA · ~524 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Indepedence Store runs at 3% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Used merchandise stores workplace, earning a grade A.

Indepedence Store: 0.1 TCR = 3% of Used merchandise stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Indepedence Store safety composite

Indepedence Store scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 99% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 99% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Indepedence Store held a steady TCR band

Indepedence Store's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.3 · 2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.3 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453310 · Independence, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.1 · 3% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/54
  • PHOTO Goodwill Industries …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~524 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goodwill Industries of El Paso Inc./ Socorro (0.0 TCR gap)

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Indepedence Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Indepedence Store averages 0.1 TCR (3% of the Used merchandise stores BLS benchmark).

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

Indepedence Store TCR series: 2016=0.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.3 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Indepedence Store falls in its industry

1,556 Used merchandise stores establishments

Safer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 54 Used merchandise stores employers in Iowa.

Indepedence Store (524 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Indepedence Store
Indepedence Store (524 employees, TCR 0.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Indepedence Store has more employees than the Used merchandise stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.3 0.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · IA · Independence

1,556 Used merchandise stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 26 employers in Independence, 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 Goodwill Industries of El Paso Inc./ Socorro 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DE00000042 GOODWILL INDUSTRIES - NEWARK 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill Industries of El Paso Inc. / ADC/NDC / 0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill Industries of El Paso Inc./ Montana 0.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Weiler, Inc. 524 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oelwein Human Services 524 FTE
STATE-SIZE DES MOINES Plant_1441091 526 FTE
STATE-SIZE HON Company Administration 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geater Machining and Manufacturing, CO 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR INDEPENDENCE PLANT 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Independence Iowa 215 FTE
NAT-TCR Halyard Health Alpharetta Headquarters 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ONEOK Inc. 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR S2 Event Security 0.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Federated Investors - FIT 0.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Givaudan Flavors Edison 524 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legrand Wiremold West Hartford 524 FTE
NAT-SIZE Agrace HospiceCare / Dane County 524 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frontier Airlines - Chicago Base 524 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: 2020, 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.