Employer · Iowa

S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids runs at 557% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids: 14.5 TCR = 557% of industry BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids safety composite

S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 22.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids: 6.2 → 22.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 22.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.57× in 2020

S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids's TCR rose 16.5 from 6.2 in 2019 to 22.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 562111 · Cedar Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.5 · 557% of ind

  • DART 22.7 DART
  • RANK #22/24
  • PHOTO Chestnut Ridge Garage
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chestnut Ridge Garage (0.0 TCR gap)

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S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids averages 14.5 TCR (557% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids TCR series: 2019=6.2 · 2020=22.7 · BLS 2.6

Where S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids falls in its industry

2,322 industry establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #22 safest of 24 industry employers in Iowa.

S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids (25 employees, TCR 14.5) 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 S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids
S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids (25 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 5.1

S05161 - Waste Management of Cedar Rapids 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
2020 22.7 22.7 4 0 0
2019 6.2 6.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

562111 · IA · Cedar Rapids

2,322 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 Chestnut Ridge Garage 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tom Berkowitz Trucking, Inc. 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maui Disposal Company Inc. 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Department of Streets & Sanitation - Bureau of Sanitation District Sanitation Office - D3A 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WCT-Crystal Lake 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oskaloosa Service Center 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consumers Energy 25 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 Millard Chicago Window Cleaning LLC 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Modesto Post Acute Center 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-950-Williams Sonoma 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Altoona 14.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Norfolk Academy 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alamo1 Specialized Trucking Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3084 Keystone Automotive Macon 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Fuel Distribution Niagara Falls Servicenter 25 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: 2020, 2019. 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.