TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.8 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Iowa workplace safety
How 7,192 OSHA-reporting employers across Iowa compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 6,483 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 7,192
- Employers
- 5.8
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 146,343
- Injuries (all)
- 105
- Fatalities (all)
Iowa vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
7,192 27th of 54 higher than 27 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Iowa's 6,483 rated reporting employers average 5.8 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.1 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.8
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 6,483
- rated employers
- 7,192
- all reporting employers
- 146,343
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 7,192 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 13% B · 13% C · 24% D · 22% F · 28%
28% of Iowa's reporting establishments earn an F and 13% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Iowa ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRIowa's average TCR of 5.8 is lower than 25% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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How Iowa Workplaces Compare
Iowa hosts 7,192 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Iowa cohort, workers have logged 146,343 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.8 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 6,483 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
The state has recorded 105 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Iowa, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Iowa, by injury rate
Page 101 of 144| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farm Service Cooperative Harlan Corporate Office | Harlan | Farm supplies merchant whole | C | 2.3 |
| Iowa QCC | Des Moines | Doughs, refrigerated or froz | B | 2.3 |
| Fareway Stores, Inc. 597 Creston | Creston | Grocery stores | B | 2.3 |
| Fareway Stores, Inc. 790 Harlan | Harlan | Grocery stores | B | 2.3 |
| Michels Power Inc-IA-Marion | Marion | Utility line (i.e., communic | C | 2.3 |
| Winterset | Winterset | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 2.3 |
| Regency Care Center | Norwalk | Nursing homes | A | 2.3 |
| Iowa Falls - Main Store | Iowa Falls | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 2.3 |
| MD Orthopaedics, Inc. | Wayland | Orthopedic devices manufactu | B | 2.3 |
| Fareway Stores, Inc. 407 Estherville | Estherville | Grocery stores | B | 2.3 |
| ICS-Great Plains, LLC | Webster City | Reconditioning shipping barr | C | 2.3 |
| LeMars - Main Store | Le Mars | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 2.3 |
| Davenport PUK | Davenport | Bonded warehousing, general | A | 2.3 |
| Darling Ingredients - Alton | Alton | Transfer (trucking) services | B | 2.3 |
| Fort Dodge Health and Rehabilitation | Fort Dodge | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 2.3 |
| POET Biorefining Gowrie | Gowrie | Denatured alcohol manufactur | B | 2.3 |
| Bridgestone - VSI | Des Moines | Janitorial services | B | 2.3 |
| 1440 - Fort Dodge | Ft. Dodge | - | B | 2.3 |
| Dubuque CMC/VMI | Dubuque | General warehousing and stor | A | 2.3 |
| Signature Flight Support Cedar Rapids | Cedar Rapids | Support Activities for Air T | B | 2.3 |
| 167 - Sioux City | Sioux City | - | B | 2.3 |
| Poet Biorefining- Corning | Corning | Ethanol, nonpotable, manufac | B | 2.3 |
| 45452065--Fisher - Lab Areas | Marshalltown | - | B | 2.3 |
| Link Manufacturing, Ltd | Sioux Center | Automotive, truck and bus su | A | 2.3 |
| Jebro Inc | Sioux City | Asphalt paving mixtures made | B | 2.3 |
| Clinton Store Career Center | Clinton | Apparel stores, used clothin | B | 2.3 |
| GJL-CORALVILLE | Coralville | Other Building Material Deal | B | 2.3 |
| 0117 Lowe S of Dubuque Ia. | Dubuque | Homecenter | B | 2.3 |
| Goodwill of the Great Plains Eastgate | Sioux City | Habilitation job counseling | B | 2.3 |
| Dupont - Pioneer Johnston Parent | Johnston | Corn farming (except sweet c | B | 2.3 |
| 6036 | Sioux City | - | B | 2.3 |
| Metro Recycling Facility | Grimes | Materials recovery facilitie | C | 2.3 |
| Storm Lake Office | Storm Lake | Group homes, intellectual an | B | 2.3 |
| 0581 Lowe S of Ames Ia | Ames | Homecenter | B | 2.3 |
| 1695 Lowe S of Sioux City Ia | Sioux City | Homecenter | B | 2.3 |
| AMEREN MISSOURI - Keokuk Energy Ctr Gen and Bud | Keokuk | Hydroelectric Power Generati | D | 2.3 |
| Architectural Arts Millwork | Des Moines | Millwork, custom architectur | B | 2.3 |
| Jewell Tool Technology | Davenport | Inserts, cutting tool, manuf | B | 2.3 |
| Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Cedar Rapids West | Cedar Rapids | Soybean oil, cake, and meal, | B | 2.3 |
| Conductix-Wampfler Harlan | Harlan | Reels, metal, manufacturing | B | 2.3 |
| Microsoft Des Moines IA | Des Moines | Janitorial services | B | 2.3 |
| Featherlite Trailers - Davis Corners | Cresco | Horse trailers, fifth-wheel- | B | 2.3 |
| Cargill Animal Nutrition | Sioux City | Animal feed mills (except do | B | 2.3 |
| American Tool & Engineering, Inc. | Greene | Molds for forming materials | B | 2.3 |
| Amp Works | Davenport | Amplifiers, magnetic, pulse, | B | 2.3 |
| Henderson Products | Manchester | Feed processing equipment, f | B | 2.3 |
| Grace Label | Des Moines | Labels, commercial printing | B | 2.3 |
| Andersons Denison Ethanol | Denison | Ethanol, nonpotable, manufac | B | 2.3 |
| B G Brecke Inc | Cedar Rapids | Mechanical contractors | C | 2.3 |
| Cedar Rapids | Cedar Rapids | Janitorial services | B | 2.3 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Iowa: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.8 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (7,192 here).
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.