General Freight Trucking · Iowa

Truck-Cherokee

Cherokee, IA · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Truck-Cherokee runs at 55% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General Freight Trucking workplace, earning a grade B.

Truck-Cherokee: 2.5 TCR = 55% of General Freight Trucking BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Truck-Cherokee safety composite

Truck-Cherokee scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

Truck-Cherokee: 1.0 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

Truck-Cherokee's TCR rose 3.0 from 1.0 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Cherokee, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 55% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #7/34
  • PHOTO Reliable Carriers Ma…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Reliable Carriers Manchester (0.0 TCR gap)

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Truck-Cherokee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Truck-Cherokee averages 2.5 TCR (55% of the General Freight Trucking BLS benchmark).

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

Truck-Cherokee TCR series: 2023=1 · 2024=4 · BLS 4.5

Where Truck-Cherokee falls in its industry

2,784 General Freight Trucking establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 34 General Freight Trucking employers in Iowa.

Truck-Cherokee (110 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Truck-Cherokee
Truck-Cherokee (110 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Truck-Cherokee has more employees than the General Freight Trucking median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 4.0 2.0 4 0 0
2023 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · IA · Cherokee

2,784 General Freight Trucking 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 Reliable Carriers Manchester 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-512 South Gevers Street 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR C&W Trucking and Sons, INC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR FLWRD - JACKSONVILLE 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux City Neal South 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winnebago County 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE MARSHALLTOWN, IA 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE HARSCO METALS 110 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 General Merchandise-Cherokee 99 FTE
NAT-TCR 2026 Greenfield 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 2763 Mundy Township 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4706 Bitterlake 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lyon LLC - Corporate Location 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ricon-Wabtec 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon Retail LLC - MAI1 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valentine Roofing, LLC 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Heating & Refrigeration 110 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.