Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Iowa

Police

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~247 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police runs at 464% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Police: 14.8 TCR = 464% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police safety composite

Police scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−1.3

2018→2024

Police injury rate improved

Police's TCR fell 1.3 from 15.0 in 2018 to 13.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 18.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=15.0 · 2019=15.5 · 2022=11.7 · 2023=18.4 · 2024=13.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Cedar Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.8 · 464% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO Police Department
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 146 inj
  • SIZE ~247 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Police in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Police averages 14.8 TCR (464% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Police TCR series: 2018=15 · 2019=15.5 · 2022=11.7 · 2023=18.4 · 2024=13.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Police falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 18 Police departments (except Ame employers in Iowa.

Police (247 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Police
Police (247 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Police has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 13.7 9.3 30 1 0
2023 18.4 13.4 34 7 0
2022 11.7 8.1 21 5 0
2019 15.5 9.6 30 4 0
2018 15.0 10.8 31 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IA · Cedar Rapids

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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 Police Department 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCSD Coroner Division 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Robbinsdale - Police 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Jacksonville Police Department 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Williamsburg Manufacturing 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown - Main Store 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stewart Memorial Community Hospital 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Mason City 246 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 Strandberg Construction 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bear Express LLC - DOR2 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gelson's Markets #16 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02089 14.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Perfect Plastic Printing Corporation 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sysco Northern New England, Inc. 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowen Corporation 247 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Zyverden, Inc. 247 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, 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.