Discount Department Stores · Iowa

1792 - Waterloo

Waterloo, IA · ~218 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1792 - Waterloo runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

1792 - Waterloo: 6.7 TCR = 196% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1792 - Waterloo safety composite

1792 - Waterloo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

1792 - Waterloo held a steady TCR band

1792 - Waterloo's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.9 in 2019 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.9 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=16.1 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 196% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #54/62
  • PHOTO 0342 - Puyallup
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~218 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0342 - Puyallup (0.0 TCR gap)

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1792 - Waterloo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1792 - Waterloo averages 6.7 TCR (196% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1792 - Waterloo TCR series: 2019=1.9 · 2021=11.2 · 2022=16.1 · 2023=2.4 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 1792 - Waterloo falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 62 Discount Department Stores employers in Iowa.

1792 - Waterloo (218 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 1792 - Waterloo
1792 - Waterloo (218 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1792 - Waterloo has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2023 2.4 1.6 3 0 0
2022 16.1 15.3 3 16 0
2021 11.2 8.8 4 10 0
2019 1.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · IA · Waterloo

4,991 Discount Department 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 0342 - Puyallup 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0860 - Burlington 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1071 - Springhurst 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1357 - St George 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Slater R&D 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bull Moose Heavy Haul, Inc. dba XL Specialized Trailers 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE AHM WAREHOUSE 218 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH36 Shull 218 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 1357 - St George 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 1071 - Springhurst 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0342 - Puyallup 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pioneer Home Anchorage HSK 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1934 - Viera 218 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1179 - Columbus 218 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1028 - West Covina 218 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0842 - Orland Park 218 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, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.