Electrical contractors · Iowa

Community Electric Inc.

Waterloo, IA · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Community Electric Inc. runs at 306% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Electrical contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Community Electric Inc.: 8.6 TCR = 306% of Electrical contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Community Electric Inc. safety composite

Community Electric Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Community Electric Inc.: 3.2 → 14.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2023

Community Electric Inc.'s TCR rose 10.8 from 3.2 in 2021 to 14.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 306% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #55/61
  • PHOTO SQUIRES ELECTRIC, INC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SQUIRES ELECTRIC, INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Community Electric Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Community Electric Inc. averages 8.6 TCR (306% of the Electrical contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Community Electric Inc. TCR series: 2021=3.2 · 2023=14 · BLS 2.8

Where Community Electric Inc. falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical contractors establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #55 safest of 61 Electrical contractors employers in Iowa.

Community Electric Inc. (33 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Community Electric Inc.
Community Electric Inc. (33 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Community Electric Inc. has fewer employees than the Electrical contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 14.0 8.4 5 0 0
2021 3.2 3.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · IA · Waterloo

4,550 Electrical contractors 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 SQUIRES ELECTRIC, INC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 301-AZ-Phoenix 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR PTI:PT527 - PT527-York, PA Core 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Connect One 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Beck's Marshalltown 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics IA Hatchery & Logistics 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE East-Central Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keokuk Contractors LLC 33 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 Rose Corporation 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Can-Am Plumbing, Inc 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Inc. (PC2106) 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Distributors, Inc 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northview Window & Door LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn Shreveport Bossier City 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Paint & Chemical Corporation 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE O'Mara Landscaping & Lawn Care Inc. 33 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: 2023, 2021. 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.