Employer · Iowa

Prairie Creek Plant

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~54 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Creek Plant runs at 383% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Prairie Creek Plant: 4.6 TCR = 383% of industry BLS 1.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Creek Plant safety composite

Prairie Creek Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Prairie Creek Plant: 3.2 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.6× in 2024

Prairie Creek Plant's TCR rose 4.2 from 3.2 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221122 · Cedar Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 383% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #46/64
  • PHOTO FGE
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FGE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prairie Creek Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Creek Plant averages 4.6 TCR (383% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Prairie Creek Plant TCR series: 2016=3.2 · 2017=1.6 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=2 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 1.2

Where Prairie Creek Plant falls in its industry

2,958 industry establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 64 industry employers in Iowa.

Prairie Creek Plant (54 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Prairie Creek Plant
Prairie Creek Plant (54 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Prairie Creek Plant has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 7.3 7.3 3 0 0
2023 8.5 4.2 2 2 0
2022 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2021 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 7.7 7.7 1 3 0
2019 5.5 3.6 2 1 0
2018 3.4 1.7 2 0 0
2017 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2016 3.2 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221122 · IA · Cedar Rapids

2,958 industry 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 FGE 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR LUMA, Utuado Fleet Operations and Warehouse 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CELESTE SVC CTR 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BARC Electric Cooperative 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods Inc. - Graettinger 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Dodge Service Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bettendorf Service Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8393-Bayer Muscatine 54 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 Paulo - Nashville 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Coppage Construction Co., Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brownsville Save A Lot 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeland Glass Company 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Calvert City Lumber Co. 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE IHG Army Hotels - Fort Belvoir (Holiday Inn Express/Army Lodging 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Natick #211 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palo Alto #403 54 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.