Landfills · Iowa

Metro Park East Landfill

Mitchellville, IA · ~40 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metro Park East Landfill runs at 330% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Landfills workplace, earning a grade F.

Metro Park East Landfill: 8.6 TCR = 330% of Landfills BLS 2.6 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro Park East Landfill safety composite

Metro Park East Landfill scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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%).

Metro Park East Landfill held a steady TCR band

Metro Park East Landfill's TCR held near 0.3 from 7.4 in 2017 to 7.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 15.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.4 · 2018=15.6 · 2019=15.4 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=6.3 · 2024=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562212 · Mitchellville, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 330% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Johnson Canyon Landf…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Johnson Canyon Landfill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metro Park East Landfill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metro Park East Landfill averages 8.6 TCR (330% of the Landfills BLS benchmark).

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

Metro Park East Landfill TCR series: 2017=7.4 · 2018=15.6 · 2019=15.4 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=6.3 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 2.6

Where Metro Park East Landfill falls in its industry

288 Landfills establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Landfills employers in Iowa.

Metro Park East Landfill (40 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Metro Park East Landfill
Metro Park East Landfill (40 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Metro Park East Landfill has more employees than the Landfills median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 7.1 7.1 3 0 0
2022 6.3 4.2 2 1 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 5.8 0.0 2 0 0
2019 15.4 15.4 5 0 0
2018 15.6 12.5 5 0 0
2017 7.4 7.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562212 · IA · Mitchellville

288 Landfills employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 5 employers in Mitchellville, 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 Johnson Canyon Landfill 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Goldsboro/ Solid Waste Division 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corp 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hill Farm 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cedar Rapids Cogen 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allamakee-Clayton Electric Cooperative 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Access Energy Cooperative 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa Correctional Institution for Women 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR Iowa Prison Industries-Mitchellville 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Packaging Facility 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blending Facility 15 FTE
NAT-TCR Palm Desert Door & Hardware 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Summit Racing Equipment Texas 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR S04009 - WM of TN - Memphis 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Embracing Autism 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hartford Hvc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Government 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waste Hauler 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pedco Systems, Inc 40 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.