Graphic art and related design services · Iowa

McCullough Creative

Dubuque, IA · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

McCullough Creative runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Graphic art and related design services workplace, earning a grade D.

McCullough Creative: 1.0 TCR = 192% of Graphic art and related design services BLS 0.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

McCullough Creative safety composite

McCullough Creative 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

McCullough Creative held a steady TCR band

McCullough Creative's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541430 · Dubuque, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 1.0 · 192% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P77
  • PHOTO JR Cole Industries, …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JR Cole Industries, Inc. - Prepress Division/Corporate Office (0.2 TCR gap)

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McCullough Creative in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows McCullough Creative averages 1.0 TCR (192% of the Graphic art and related design services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

McCullough Creative TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 0.5

Where McCullough Creative falls in its industry

13 Graphic art and related design establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
McCullough Creative (28 employees, TCR 1.0) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Moderne Glass Co., Inc.Corporate OfficeOrbus WoodridgeAd Graphics LLCJR Cole Industries, Inc. - Prepress Division/Corporate OfficeCircle Graphics - Richmond DBA World Art GroupMcCullough Creative
McCullough Creative (28 employees, TCR 1.0) among 6 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.0

McCullough Creative has fewer employees than the Graphic art and related design services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541430 · IA · Dubuque

13 Graphic art and related design services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 217 employers in Dubuque, 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 JR Cole Industries, Inc. - Prepress Division/Corporate Office 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Circle Graphics - Richmond DBA World Art Group 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Powerhouse Animation Studios 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate Office 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Des Moines, IA-Biolife 792 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Surgery Center of Des Moines East 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riverview SNF Operator LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE King's Eldridge 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Deere Dubuque Works 2,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque-MHS-IA/NE 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Dubuque 1,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hirschbach Motor Lines, Inc 1,110 FTE
NAT-TCR Avery Dennison - Reflectives and Digital Inks 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dailey Yard 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CNC Shop 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Pavilion at Kenton 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE VRC Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Churchill Equipment Company-Manhattan 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sigvaris Holland 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE City's Towne & Country Launderers 28 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. 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.