Retail Stores · Iowa

0756 - Waterloo, Ia

Waterloo, IA · ~15 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0756 - Waterloo, Ia runs at 257% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0756 - Waterloo, Ia: 8.7 TCR = 257% of Retail Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0756 - Waterloo, Ia safety composite

0756 - Waterloo, Ia scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

Rising injury rate

0756 - Waterloo, Ia: 0.0 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 16.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2018

0756 - Waterloo, Ia's TCR rose 9.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 9.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 16.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 257% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO Frattallone's Ace Ha…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Frattallone's Ace Hardware-Burnsville (0.0 TCR gap)

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0756 - Waterloo, Ia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0756 - Waterloo, Ia averages 8.7 TCR (257% of the Retail Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0756 - Waterloo, Ia TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=16.7 · 2018=9.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 0756 - Waterloo, Ia falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Stores establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 14 Retail Stores employers in Iowa.

0756 - Waterloo, Ia (15 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 0756 - Waterloo, Ia
0756 - Waterloo, Ia (15 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

0756 - Waterloo, Ia has fewer employees than the Retail Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2018 9.5 9.5 1 0 0
2017 16.7 16.7 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · IA · Waterloo

1,493 Retail Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 172 employers in Waterloo, IA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Frattallone's Ace Hardware-Burnsville 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR YUMA, AZ #00042 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-0610X 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LACEY, WA #00050 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #2) 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midwest Underground Contractors Inc. 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gee Asphalt Systems inc 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blending Facility 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black Hawk County Extension 4,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterloo Pork Plant 2,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR UnityPoint 2,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR JD Waterloo Tractor and Cab Assembly Operations 1,605 FTE
NAT-TCR Peapod S&S North Reading, Ma 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Medina Lake 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Zanesville (Ohzan) 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Francis Hospital 8.7 TCR

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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.