Kit assembling and packaging services · Iowa

NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~295 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Kit assembling and packaging services workplace, earning a grade D.

NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids: 4.1 TCR = 158% of Kit assembling and packaging services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids safety composite

NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−4.5

2023→2024

NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids injury rate improved

NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids's TCR fell 4.5 from 6.4 in 2023 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.4 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561910 · Cedar Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 158% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Walden
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~295 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Walden (0.0 TCR gap)

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NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids averages 4.1 TCR (158% of the Kit assembling and packaging services BLS benchmark).

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

NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids TCR series: 2023=6.4 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 2.6

Where NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids falls in its industry

228 Kit assembling and packaging s establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Kit assembling and packaging s employers in Iowa.

NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids (295 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids
NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids (295 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 1.9

NCS Pearson - Cedar Rapids has more employees than the Kit assembling and packaging services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 1.8 1.2 3 0 0
2023 6.4 5.5 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561910 · IA · Cedar Rapids

228 Kit assembling and packaging services 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 Walden 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ProSolutions 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR QPI Cape Girardeau 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NOVO Health Services - Chattanooga 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Burgess Health Center 295 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Liberty Foods 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clysar LLC 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE EAST PENN CORYDON 296 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 Giant Food Stores 6486 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Silveira Farms 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Float-on, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Plate Catering LTD 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE US Army North 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blair Image Elements - Main 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eataly Dallas 295 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexington Clinic South Broadway 295 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. 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.