Colleges, universities, and professional schools · Iowa

Black Hawk County Extension

Name: Black Hawk County Extension Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Waterloo, IA · ~4,790 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 0.0
Avg TCR: 1.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Black Hawk County Extension runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Colleges, universities, and professional schools workplace, earning a grade C.

Black Hawk County Extension: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Hawk County Extension safety composite

Black Hawk County Extension scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Black Hawk County Extension held a steady TCR band

Black Hawk County Extension's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 0.0 TCR.

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Waterloo, IA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #0/10
PHOTO South Central Colleg…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 0 inj
SIZE ~4,790 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Central College - Faribault Campus (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ivy Tech Commu

0.2
South Central

0.1
Swarthmore Col

0.1
B4 South Bend

0.1
This site

0

What this shows Black Hawk County Extension averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS benchmark).

Black Hawk County Extension TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · BLS 1.4

Where Black Hawk County Extension falls in its industry

347 Colleges, universities, and pr establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 10 Colleges, universities, and pr employers in Iowa.

Black Hawk County Extension (4,790 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Black Hawk County Extension has more employees than the Colleges, universities, and professional median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2016	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · IA · Waterloo

347 Colleges, universities, and professional schools 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	South Central College - Faribault Campus	FARIBAULT, MN	0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Swarthmore College	SWARTHMORE, PA	0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	B4 South Bend - South Bend/Elkhart Campus	SOUTH BEND, IN	0.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana - Systems Office	INDIANAPOLIS, IN	0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines	DES MOINES	4,884 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wright Tree Service, Inc	WEST DES MOINES	4,019 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MercyOne Des Moines	DES MOINES	3,547 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Des Moines Methodist Hospital	DES MOINES	3,495 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Waterloo Pork Plant	Waterloo	2,801 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UnityPoint	Waterloo	2,295 FTE
CITY-NEAR	JD Waterloo Tractor and Cab Assembly Operations	Waterloo	1,605 FTE
CITY-NEAR	John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center	Waterloo	1,492 FTE
NAT-TCR	Aviation Other : Virtual Employee Roll-Up Site	Cincinnati, OH	0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	AZ-01	Phoenix, AZ	0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	CT-02	Stamford, CT	0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	NJ-05	Ewing Township, NJ	0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	FDM Associates Inc - SFS	Red Bank, NJ	4,790 FTE
NAT-SIZE	St Elizabeth Healthcare Edgewood	Edgewood, KY	4,796 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Grant Medical Center	Columbus, OH	4,801 FTE
NAT-SIZE	East Tennessee State University	Johnson City, TN	4,802 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: 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.