Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities · Iowa

Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office

Waterloo, IA · ~162 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities workplace, earning a grade F.

Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office: 6.5 TCR = 202% of Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office safety composite

Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office: 3.6 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2024

Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office's TCR rose 7.2 from 3.6 in 2018 to 10.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922190 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 202% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Office of Homeland S…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (0.2 TCR gap)

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Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office averages 6.5 TCR (202% of the Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities BLS benchmark).

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

Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2018=3.6 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=10.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

79 Other Justice, Public Order, a establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Other Justice, Public Order, a employers in Iowa.

Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office (162 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office
Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office (162 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Black Hawk County Sheriff's Office has more employees than the Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 10.9 7.2 14 1 0
2023 6.5 2.2 5 4 0
2022 10.1 5.7 12 2 0
2021 7.1 4.2 7 3 0
2020 2.1 1.4 2 1 0
2019 5.1 3.6 5 2 0
2018 3.6 2.9 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922190 · IA · Waterloo

79 Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities 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 Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Modesto 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Burlington 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Chatham - 117 E Mulberry Police Dept 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kline Electric 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE SHIVVERS MANUFACTURING INC 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gemini Decorah 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMES IA - 3356 162 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 The BJC Group, Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tri-C Wood Products, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rudy Luther Toyota 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosalia Restaurant 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phoenix 3 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE GK NEVADA LLC dba CENTENNIAL TOYOTA 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Mathers Team 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plymouth Office 162 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.