Employer · Iowa

S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence

Independence, IA · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence runs at 450% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence: 11.7 TCR = 450% of industry BLS 2.6 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence safety composite

S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence: 4.7 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 32.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2019

S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence's TCR rose 4.7 from 4.7 in 2016 to 9.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 32.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Independence, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 450% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #20/24
  • PHOTO Solid Waste Department
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Solid Waste Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence averages 11.7 TCR (450% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=32.7 · 2019=9.4 · BLS 2.6

Where S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence falls in its industry

2,322 industry establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 24 industry employers in Iowa.

S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence (23 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence
S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence (23 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

S04145 - WM of Central IA - Independence has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2019 9.4 4.7 2 0 0
2018 32.7 0.0 2 5 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IA · Independence

2,322 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 26 employers in Independence, 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 Solid Waste Department 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jersey City - Broadway 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S03204 - Cal Sierra Disposal 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Madisonville - Sanitation 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Indepedence Store 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geater Machining and Manufacturing, CO 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR People's Memorial Hospital of Buchanan County Health Center 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR INDEPENDENCE PLANT 244 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 449 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergy Solutions Crisp County 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Store #2 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tft #537 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mansfield University 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 577 Main St 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scalise 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arby's 7601 23 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: 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.