City and town councils · Illinois

City of Waterloo

Waterloo, IL · ~87 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Waterloo runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City and town councils workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Waterloo: 7.9 TCR = 246% of City and town councils BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Waterloo safety composite

City of Waterloo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

City of Waterloo: 4.0 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

City of Waterloo's TCR rose 4.1 from 4.0 in 2018 to 8.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 16.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921120 · Waterloo, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 246% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/18
  • PHOTO City of Gaylord,MN
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Gaylord,MN (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 7.9 TCR (246% of the City and town councils BLS benchmark).

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

City of Waterloo TCR series: 2018=4 · 2019=9 · 2020=11.7 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=16.2 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Waterloo falls in its industry

158 City and town councils establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 18 City and town councils employers in Illinois.

City of Waterloo (87 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Waterloo
City of Waterloo (87 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6

City of Waterloo has fewer employees than the City and town councils median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 8.1 0.0 6 0 0
2023 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2022 16.2 5.4 6 3 0
2021 4.4 0.0 0 3 0
2020 11.7 5.8 7 1 0
2019 9.0 5.6 5 3 0
2018 4.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921120 · IL · Waterloo

158 City and town councils employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 20 employers in Waterloo, IL · 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 City of Gaylord,MN 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Brookville 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calvert County Government 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The City of Menlo Park 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE HI-Grade Egg Producers & Processors - Loda 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acciona Energy USA Global 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - AIC Distribution Operations 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Gas Ops 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 328 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR 328 284 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wm. Nobbe & Company 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR OakHill 199 FTE
NAT-TCR Dominion Maryville, LLC 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0CR99 Foretravel of Texas Inc 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Munster in 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Food Source 712-Stockton 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Moody Dunbar, Inc 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ukiah Post Acute 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Lodge at Natchez Trace 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woodside Village Care Center 87 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.