Colleges, community · Iowa

Kirkwood Community College

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~2,009 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Kirkwood Community College runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Colleges, community workplace, earning a grade C.

Kirkwood Community College: 1.5 TCR = 106% of Colleges, community BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kirkwood Community College safety composite

Kirkwood Community College scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−2.0

2018→2022

Kirkwood Community College injury rate improved

Kirkwood Community College's TCR fell 2.0 from 2.8 in 2018 to 0.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.8 · 2019=1.5 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Cedar Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 1.5 · 106% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK P44
  • PHOTO IECC - Frontier Comm…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~2,009 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IECC - Frontier Community College (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Iowa employers → · Look up another →

Kirkwood Community College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kirkwood Community College averages 1.5 TCR (106% of the Colleges, community BLS benchmark).

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

Kirkwood Community College TCR series: 2018=2.8 · 2019=1.5 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=0.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Kirkwood Community College falls in its industry

127 Colleges, community establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kirkwood Community College (2,009 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Kirkwood Community College
Kirkwood Community College (2,009 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Kirkwood Community College has more employees than the Colleges, community median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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
2022 0.8 0.7 8 0 0
2021 0.9 0.7 9 0 0
2019 1.5 0.9 15 0 0
2018 2.8 1.9 30 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · IA · Cedar Rapids

127 Colleges, community employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 466 employers in Cedar Rapids, 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 IECC - Frontier Community College 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MinnState - Northland Community and Technical College East Grand Forks 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MnSCU South Central Tech College 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR William Rainey Harper College 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Swift Pork Company 1,980 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winnebago Industries - Forest City 2,047 FTE
STATE-SIZE JBS 2,121 FTE
STATE-SIZE SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE) 6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave 6,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRST EXPEDITED INC 3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Methodist Hospital 2,949 FTE
NAT-TCR 4795-PS-PHL-PHILADELPHIA-PHL-PSAA 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0177 Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. - Monmouth 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0176 Fresh Express Inc. - Streamwood 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamond Pet Foods 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aegion Energy Services 2,010 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jt4 LLC 2,008 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nissan Americas Headquarters - Franklin 2,007 FTE
NAT-SIZE Business Office - Benson Tower 2,007 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.