Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) · Iowa

Innovative Industries

Creston, IA · ~98 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Innovative Industries runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) workplace, earning a grade D.

Innovative Industries: 6.2 TCR = 163% of Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) BLS 3.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Innovative Industries safety composite

Innovative Industries scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

TCR Δ

−13.9

2016→2024

Innovative Industries injury rate improved

Innovative Industries's TCR fell 13.9 from 13.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 26.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.9 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=26.6 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624310 · Creston, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 163% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #41/48
  • PHOTO Parma AAC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Parma AAC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Innovative Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Innovative Industries averages 6.2 TCR (163% of the Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) BLS benchmark).

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

Innovative Industries TCR series: 2016=13.9 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=26.6 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.8

Where Innovative Industries falls in its industry

1,455 Sheltered workshops (i.e., wor establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 48 Sheltered workshops (i.e., wor employers in Iowa.

Innovative Industries (98 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Innovative Industries
Innovative Industries (98 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Innovative Industries has more employees than the Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experien median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 26.6 2.7 10 0 0
2018 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2016 13.9 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624310 · IA · Creston

1,455 Sheltered workshops (i.e., work experience centers) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 35 employers in Creston, 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 Parma AAC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Compass Career EMP - Spokane 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Occupational Services Inc 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ProAct Inc. Eagan 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2162-Grinnell, IA 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1886-Huxley, IA 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeLong Construction, Inc. 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE KW Electric Inc. - Cedar Falls 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Townline 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greater Regional Health 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greater Regional Medical Center 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foundry 353 FTE
NAT-TCR Biotics Research Corp. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lone Pine 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Stein's Garden & Home Kenosha 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Premier Concrete 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cal-Main Foods Inc. Edwards 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACE-Pleasantville Operations 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Custom Distribution Tigard 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omaha, NE OFC 98 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.