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 109 of 144| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fareway Stores, Inc. 462 Vinton | Vinton | Grocery stores | B | 1.8 |
| Fareway Stores, Inc. 788 Spencer | Spencer | Grocery stores | B | 1.8 |
| Peterson Cotractors, Inc. | Reinbeck | Oil field road construction | B | 1.8 |
| Louisa Generating Station | Muscatine | Electric power generation, f | D | 1.8 |
| Bolton & Menk - Des Moines | Des Moines | Civil engineering services | F | 1.8 |
| Mercy Family Clinic - Women's Health Center | Mason City | Gynecologists' offices (e.g. | A | 1.8 |
| Corteva Johnston Campus - JH30 Krug | Johnston | Farm supplies merchant whole | C | 1.8 |
| Sodexo at Morningside University | Sioux City | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Spahn & Rose - Jesup Yard | Jesup | Building materials supply de | B | 1.8 |
| Addington Place of Mount Pleasant | Mount Pleasant | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.8 |
| JC Toland Painting | Des Moines | Painting and wallpapering | B | 1.8 |
| Graham Construction Company, Inc. | Des Moines | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 1.8 |
| 14th St. Des Moines IA Thrift Store | Des Moines | Used merchandise stores | B | 1.8 |
| 201 - Davenport | Davenport | - | B | 1.8 |
| UG2 - 176 - Des Moines University | Des Moines | Janitorial services | A | 1.8 |
| Younkers #404 | Marshalltown | Department stores (except di | B | 1.8 |
| Pella Corporation - Pella Operations | Pella | Wood window frames and sash | B | 1.8 |
| Vulcan Industries, Inc | Missouri Valley | Screening machinery, station | B | 1.8 |
| Lovewell Fencing, Inc. | Davenport | Fencing contractors (except | B | 1.8 |
| Hamburg IA Bulk | Hamburg | All Other Miscellaneous Food | A | 1.8 |
| Metro Store | Cedar Falls | Used merchandise stores | B | 1.8 |
| Allamakee-Clayton Electric Cooperative | Postville | Distribution of electric pow | D | 1.8 |
| Collis INC | Clinton | Shelving, wire, made from pu | B | 1.8 |
| WIE Wall Lake | Wall Lake | Fatty acid esters and amines | B | 1.8 |
| Sodexo at Graceland University | Lamoni | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Hormel Food | Algona | Processed meats manufacturin | B | 1.8 |
| Rainbo Oil Company | Dubuque | Crude oil merchant wholesale | C | 1.8 |
| Oscecola Food, LLC | Osceola | Hams, preserved (except poul | B | 1.8 |
| Alter Metal Recycling - Davenport Operation | Davenport | General-line scrap merchant | C | 1.8 |
| RJ Tide Construction Company | Lawton | Foundation, building, poured | B | 1.8 |
| BHE - Council Bluff W Broadway (IA001) | Council Bluffs | Distribution of natural gas | D | 1.8 |
| Walter Scott, Jr. Energy Center | Council Bluffs | Power generation, fossil fue | D | 1.8 |
| Fareway Stores, Inc. 3804 | Boone | Grocery stores | B | 1.8 |
| Waterloo, IA - 1205 Peters Dr | Waterloo | - | A | 1.8 |
| International Paper Cedar Rapids Container | Cedar Rapids | Boxes, corrugated and solid | B | 1.8 |
| 4388 Des Moines IA Sheet Plant | Des Moines | Corrugated and Solid Fiber B | B | 1.8 |
| CSC | Johnston | - | A | 1.8 |
| QCI Thermal Systems, Inc. | Iowa City | Pipe, duct and boiler insula | B | 1.8 |
| 1886-Huxley, IA | Huxley | Postharvest Crop Activities | A | 1.8 |
| Rueter's - Carroll | Carroll | Agricultural machinery and e | D | 1.8 |
| Iowa Farm Bureau Federation | West Des Moines | Business associations | C | 1.8 |
| Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition North America, Inc. | Eddyville | Animal feed mills (except do | A | 1.8 |
| Norman Scott Co. dba In Tolerance | Cedar Rapids | Precision turned product man | B | 1.8 |
| Spirit Lake Operating | Spirit Lake | - | D | 1.8 |
| 3060_5899 | Cedar Rapids | - | B | 1.8 |
| Alta | Alta | Grain elevators merchant who | C | 1.8 |
| Keokuk Wheat Starch Gluten | Keokuk | Flour Milling | B | 1.8 |
| Sodexo at Meth - Wick Community Inc | Cedar Rapids | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Go Daddy- Hiawatha, IA | Hiawatha | Building cleaning services, | A | 1.8 |
| Frank Millard & Co., Inc. | Burlington | Heating, ventilation and air | B | 1.8 |
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).
Look up a Iowa employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
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.