Cabinets, kitchen (except freestanding), stock or custom wood, manufacturing · Iowa

Bertch Cabinet Mfg.

Waterloo, IA · ~566 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bertch Cabinet Mfg. runs at 304% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cabinets, kitchen (except freestanding), stock or custom wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bertch Cabinet Mfg.: 10.0 TCR = 304% of Cabinets, kitchen (except freestanding), stock or custom wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bertch Cabinet Mfg. safety composite

Bertch Cabinet Mfg. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Bertch Cabinet Mfg.: 6.3 → 16.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 16.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2020

Bertch Cabinet Mfg.'s TCR rose 10.4 from 6.3 in 2016 to 16.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337110 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 304% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO AIA Countertops Plan…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 170 inj
  • SIZE ~566 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AIA Countertops Plant 535 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bertch Cabinet Mfg. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bertch Cabinet Mfg. averages 10.0 TCR (304% of the Cabinets, kitchen (except freestanding), stock or custom wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bertch Cabinet Mfg. TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=9.8 · 2018=8.9 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=16.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Bertch Cabinet Mfg. falls in its industry

508 Cabinets, kitchen (except free establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Cabinets, kitchen (except free employers in Iowa.

Bertch Cabinet Mfg. (566 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bertch Cabinet Mfg.
Bertch Cabinet Mfg. (566 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Bertch Cabinet Mfg. has more employees than the Cabinets, kitchen (except freestanding), median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2020 16.7 5.2 30 53 0
2019 8.4 5.1 44 17 0
2018 8.9 5.0 35 27 0
2017 9.8 4.9 29 21 0
2016 6.3 5.1 32 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337110 · IA · Waterloo

508 Cabinets, kitchen (except freestanding), stock or custom wood, manufacturing 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 AIA Countertops Plant 535 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CounterTek Inc. 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ideal Cabinetry 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Closets by Design 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE CDS Global Des Moines 566 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mom's Meals IA Home Office 565 FTE
STATE-SIZE FAREWAY STORES, INC. 3804 568 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Ambrose University 564 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 Walter Stornetta Ranch 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1100 Monroe Twp. Board of Education 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ofa 84 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Protein Sources, LLP 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dal-Tile Corporation 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE OAK - Flight Ops 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Tennessee Regional Health System-Winchester/Sewanee 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Dow Chemical Company -Newark, DE 566 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.