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 117 of 144| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton Folding | Clinton | - | A | 1.3 |
| Pyramid Inc. | Newton | Acetal resins manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| US Gypsum Sperry | Mediapolis | Wall Board and Mine | A | 1.3 |
| Gifford Brown | Des Moines | Antennas merchant wholesaler | B | 1.3 |
| Davenport 10424 | Davenport | Plasma Center | A | 1.3 |
| Iowa Donor Network - North Liberty | North Liberty | Organ donor centers, body | A | 1.3 |
| Van Horne IA IA | Van Horne | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | B | 1.3 |
| SSAB Iowa (SSAB North America) | Muscatine | Mini-mills, steel | A | 1.3 |
| 6284-Yr-495 Rx | Urbandale | Freight Trucking LTL | A | 1.3 |
| A&I Us | Rock Valley | Farm tractors and attachment | A | 1.3 |
| Berry Global | Peosta | Microwaveware, plastics, man | A | 1.3 |
| Seither & Cherry Quad Cities, Inc. | Davenport | Commercial and industrial ma | B | 1.3 |
| Cedar River Mill | Cedar Rapids | Coated board made in paperbo | A | 1.3 |
| Silgan Containers Burlington | Burlington | Metal cans, light gauge meta | A | 1.3 |
| Kinze Manufacturing | Williamsburg | Farm wagons manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| Eia - Blue Grass | Blue Grass | HIGHWAY STREET AND BRIDGE CO | A | 1.3 |
| Davenport Central Campus - DVCC | Davenport | Distribution of electric pow | C | 1.3 |
| Zearing healthcare center,llc | Zearing | Nursing homes | A | 1.3 |
| Sioux City 257 | Sioux City | Cable broadcasting networks | D | 1.3 |
| Sodexo at John Deere Des Moines Works | Ankeny | Food Service Contractors | A | 1.3 |
| Fareway Stores, Inc. 412 Oelwein | Oelwein | Grocery stores | A | 1.3 |
| Muscatine, IA | Muscatine | Pesticide and Other Agricult | A | 1.3 |
| Nestle Purina PetCare | Davenport | Pet food, dog and cat, manuf | A | 1.3 |
| Davenport PFC | Davenport | Pharmacies and Drug Stores | A | 1.3 |
| Fareway Stores, Inc. 236 Bondurant | Bondurant | Grocery stores | A | 1.3 |
| TOPS Products 1120 Heritage | Osage | Office supplies, die-cut pap | A | 1.3 |
| IA - Ottumwa - 14955 Truman St - The American Bottling Company | Ottumwa | Bottled canned soft drinks a | A | 1.3 |
| CDS Global Distribution Center | Des Moines | Warehouse, commercial and in | A | 1.3 |
| Northwest Iowa Power Cooperative | Le Mars | Electric power transmission | C | 1.3 |
| Leick Construction Inc | Glenwood | Earth retention system const | A | 1.3 |
| Panama Transfer Panama | Panama | Transfer (trucking) services | A | 1.3 |
| River Cities Engineering | Davenport | Electrical contractors | A | 1.3 |
| Ferguson Enterprises LLC: IA Cedar Rapids - 4625 6th Street SW | Cedar Rapids | Plumbing and Heating Equipme | B | 1.3 |
| Sioux City 2900 | Sioux City | Warehousing, refrigerated | A | 1.3 |
| UnityPoint Health - Trinity Regional Medical Center - Highland Park Center | Fort Dodge | General medical and surgical | A | 1.3 |
| Spencer/Spirit Lake IA Site | Spencer | Telecommunications carriers, | D | 1.3 |
| Build to Suit Inc | Bettendorf | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.3 |
| 0d89 - Des Moines Fas | Grimes | Professional and commercial | B | 1.3 |
| Shearer's Foods - BUR | Burlington | Cookies manufacturing | A | 1.3 |
| Hilton Garden Inn | Bettendorf | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.3 |
| City of Ames - Water Treatment Plant | Ames | Water treatment and distribu | C | 1.3 |
| Geater Machining and Manufacturing, CO | Independence | Sheet metal work (except sta | A | 1.3 |
| Dubuque GO | Dubuque | Other Building Material Deal | A | 1.3 |
| Cedar Falls, IA- BioLife | Cedar Falls | Plasmapheresis Center | A | 1.3 |
| Cid Fsa | Cedar Rapids | TRANSPORTATION | A | 1.3 |
| Palmer College of Chiropractic - Main campus | Davenport | Colleges, universities, and | C | 1.3 |
| Allied Valve, Inc. | Riverdale | Industrial equipment and mac | B | 1.3 |
| 2515-Grinnell, IA | Grinnell | Postharvest Crop Activities | A | 1.3 |
| Manor Care Health Services Cedar Rapids | Cedar Rapids | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 1.3 |
| Green Line Polymers--Waterloo | Waterloo | Recyclable materials (e.g., | B | 1.3 |
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).
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.