Thrift shops, used merchandise · Iowa

Iowa City

Iowa City, IA · ~109 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa City runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Thrift shops, used merchandise workplace, earning a grade C.

Iowa City: 3.0 TCR = 88% of Thrift shops, used merchandise BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa City safety composite

Iowa City scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Iowa City: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.48× in 2024

Iowa City's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 88% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #19/54
  • PHOTO Store 66
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 66 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iowa City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa City averages 3.0 TCR (88% of the Thrift shops, used merchandise BLS benchmark).

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

Iowa City TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.3 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=1 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=16.5 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Iowa City falls in its industry

1,556 Thrift shops, used merchandise establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #19 safest of 54 Thrift shops, used merchandise employers in Iowa.

Iowa City (109 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Iowa City
Iowa City (109 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Iowa City has more employees than the Thrift shops, used merchandise 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
2024 2.9 1.4 2 0 0
2023 16.5 16.5 4 0 0
2022 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2018 2.2 0.0 3 0 0
2017 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · IA · Iowa City

1,556 Thrift shops, used merchandise employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 131 employers in Iowa City, 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 Store 66 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Victoria - Houston Hwy 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill Industries of Denver Greeley 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pekin Retail Store & Learning Center 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2515-Grinnell, IA 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Foods 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Engineering-Council Bluffs 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Absolute Group - Concrete Division 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1918-19187610 29,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa City North Dodge (ICND) 940 FTE
CITY-NEAR 8010516-P and G Iowa City 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Iowa City 721 FTE
NAT-TCR Cellofoam-Winchester, VA 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR HCA Florida West Hospital 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Waste Industries Raleigh 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Russellville (BAMG) 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prairie Lakes Health Campus 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daltile Lincolnway East 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inteplast Engineered Films-Prattville 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowes Foods #188 109 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, 2021, 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.