Employer · Iowa

The Gardens-Cherokee

Cherokee, IA · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Gardens-Cherokee runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

The Gardens-Cherokee: 5.3 TCR = 82% of industry BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Gardens-Cherokee safety composite

The Gardens-Cherokee scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−5.4

2017→2019

The Gardens-Cherokee injury rate improved

The Gardens-Cherokee's TCR fell 5.4 from 10.7 in 2017 to 5.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Cherokee, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 82% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #138/396
  • PHOTO Encore Healthcare an…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Encore Healthcare and Rehab (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Gardens-Cherokee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Gardens-Cherokee averages 5.3 TCR (82% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

The Gardens-Cherokee TCR series: 2017=10.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=5.3 · BLS 6.5

Where The Gardens-Cherokee falls in its industry

15,252 industry establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #138 safest of 396 industry employers in Iowa.

The Gardens-Cherokee (24 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 The Gardens-Cherokee
The Gardens-Cherokee (24 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

The Gardens-Cherokee has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 10.7 5.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IA · Cherokee

15,252 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 24 employers in Cherokee, 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 Encore Healthcare and Rehab 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Mark's Living 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NG-NG-NORTH GROVE 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alden Estates-Courts of Huntley 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Afton Warehouse 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwood Sow Unit 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belmond 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarion, IA 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grocery-Cherokee 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cherokee Regional Medical Center 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR DHS-Cherokee Mental Health Institute 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truck-Cherokee 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Winholt-PA 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Placid 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TASUS 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : SDF1 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE NDX Salem 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enterprise Rent A Car - Valencia 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1144 Routes 5 & 20 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coarc-Evergreen 24 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. 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.