Newspaper publishers and printing combined · Iowa

The Gazette

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~113 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.4
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Gazette runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Newspaper publishers and printing combined workplace, earning a grade B.

The Gazette: 0.4 TCR = 57% of Newspaper publishers and printing combined BLS 0.7 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Gazette safety composite

The Gazette scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.9

2017→2021

The Gazette injury rate improved

The Gazette's TCR fell 0.9 from 0.9 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.9 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 511110 · Cedar Rapids, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 0.4 · 57% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Star Tribune Media H…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Star Tribune Media Holdings Corporate (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Gazette in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Gazette averages 0.4 TCR (57% of the Newspaper publishers and printing combined BLS benchmark).

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

The Gazette TCR series: 2017=0.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.1 · 2021=0 · BLS 0.7

Where The Gazette falls in its industry

61 Newspaper publishers and print establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Newspaper publishers and print employers in Iowa.

The Gazette (113 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Gazette
The Gazette (113 employees, TCR 0.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4

The Gazette has more employees than the Newspaper publishers and printing combin median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

511110 · IA · Cedar Rapids

61 Newspaper publishers and printing combined 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 Star Tribune Media Holdings Corporate 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daily Journal 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Company HQ 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trib Total Media - Greensburg 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Keen Project Solutions 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acme Electric Company 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE JC Toland Painting 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Foods Inc. Britt, Iowa 113 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 BASF Pasadena CPN 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Supply Chain : Greenville, SC 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Crystal River Nuclear Plant 0.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bio-Rad Laboratories-Plano 0.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Villa Rica Sam's 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Majestic Steel USA - PP 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Everett Dykes Grassing Co., Inc. 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Elmhurst - Police Department 113 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: 2021, 2020, 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.