Warehousing, refrigerated · Iowa

Crystal Distribution Services

Waterloo, IA · ~74 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Crystal Distribution Services runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Warehousing, refrigerated workplace, earning a grade B.

Crystal Distribution Services: 4.0 TCR = 69% of Warehousing, refrigerated BLS 5.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Crystal Distribution Services safety composite

Crystal Distribution Services scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

Crystal Distribution Services: 2.7 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2023

Crystal Distribution Services's TCR rose 2.5 from 2.7 in 2021 to 5.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Waterloo, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 4.0 · 69% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #17/35
  • PHOTO Sun Pacific Shippers…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sun Pacific Shippers LP | Richgorve Cold Storage (0.0 TCR gap)

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Crystal Distribution Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Crystal Distribution Services averages 4.0 TCR (69% of the Warehousing, refrigerated BLS benchmark).

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

Crystal Distribution Services TCR series: 2021=2.7 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=5.1 · BLS 5.8

Where Crystal Distribution Services falls in its industry

1,039 Warehousing, refrigerated establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 35 Warehousing, refrigerated employers in Iowa.

Crystal Distribution Services (74 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 Crystal Distribution Services
Crystal Distribution Services (74 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Crystal Distribution Services has more employees than the Warehousing, refrigerated median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 5.1 1.3 4 0 0
2022 4.3 3.0 7 0 0
2021 2.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · IA · Waterloo

1,039 Warehousing, refrigerated 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 Sun Pacific Shippers LP | Richgorve Cold Storage 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Americold Logistics, LLC: Atlanta Westgate 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond (Cofer) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gloucester Rowe Square 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Iowa Falls 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worley Field Services - ADM Clinton 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mittera - Creative Services 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC dba Valero Hartley Plant 74 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 Oak Brook Park District 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Century Furniture Chair Plant # 3 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trayer Engineering Corporation 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Jamison Home Services, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 131 - Gm-Mason Dc 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saf West 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Robin Industries Holmco Division 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZZ Galvanizing & Plating - Milwaukee LLC 74 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, 2022, 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.