Executive and legislative office combinations · Iowa

City of Waterloo

Waterloo, IA · ~737 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Waterloo runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Executive and legislative office combinations workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Waterloo: 6.7 TCR = 208% of Executive and legislative office combinations BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Waterloo safety composite

City of Waterloo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2016→2018

City of Waterloo injury rate improved

City of Waterloo's TCR fell 3.3 from 8.0 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.0 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921140 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 208% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #8/14
  • PHOTO FIRE DEPARTMENT
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 98 inj
  • SIZE ~737 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FIRE DEPARTMENT (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Waterloo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Waterloo averages 6.7 TCR (208% of the Executive and legislative office combinations BLS benchmark).

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

City of Waterloo TCR series: 2016=8 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=4.7 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Waterloo falls in its industry

239 Executive and legislative offi establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 14 Executive and legislative offi employers in Iowa.

City of Waterloo (737 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 282 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Waterloo
City of Waterloo (737 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 282 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Waterloo has more employees than the Executive and legislative office combina median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2018 4.7 3.6 23 2 0
2017 7.2 3.5 38 3 0
2016 8.0 3.7 37 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921140 · IA · Waterloo

239 Executive and legislative office combinations 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 FIRE DEPARTMENT 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Ayden 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City Hall 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Kentwood 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Council Bluffs IA 742 FTE
STATE-SIZE Core-Mark Iowa 732 FTE
STATE-SIZE GrapeTree Medical Staffing, LLC 732 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shearer's Foods - BUR 727 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 Fred Williams, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Nathan Hale Inn and Conference Center 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sam Brown Sales 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cdsd Diamond Bar 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kent Companies Texas Office 737 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6164-St Joseph S Wayne Hospital 737 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZSEC 737 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2045-00018W 737 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: 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.