Individual and family social services, multi-purpose · Iowa

Families First

Waterloo, IA · ~236 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Families First runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Individual and family social services, multi-purpose workplace, earning a grade B.

Families First: 2.9 TCR = 75% of Individual and family social services, multi-purpose BLS 3.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Families First safety composite

Families First scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Families First: 2.7 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.14× in 2024

Families First's TCR rose 1.6 from 2.7 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624190 · Waterloo, IA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #6/16
  • PHOTO Sanford Office
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~236 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sanford Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Families First in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Families First averages 2.9 TCR (75% of the Individual and family social services, multi-purpose BLS benchmark).

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

Families First TCR series: 2017=2.7 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=1 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=0.6 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.8

Where Families First falls in its industry

990 Individual and family social s establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 16 Individual and family social s employers in Iowa.

Families First (236 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Families First
Families First (236 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Families First has more employees than the Individual and family social services, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 4.3 0.4 10 1 0
2023 4.6 0.9 10 0 0
2022 1.8 0.3 5 1 0
2021 0.6 0.0 2 0 0
2020 3.3 0.9 11 0 0
2019 1.0 0.3 3 0 0
2018 4.6 1.6 9 5 0
2017 2.7 0.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624190 · IA · Waterloo

990 Individual and family social services, multi-purpose 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 Sanford Office 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Hollywood Family Center 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ascentria Community Services -Concord 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1440 Story Avenue 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE northwest Mechanical 236 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nestle USA Waverly Iowa 236 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sioux Center Harvest Plant 236 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Collins (Manchester) 236 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 Survival Armor Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 3050 Keystone E. Peoria 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Monroe 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Benson Construction, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Manke Lumber Company Inc. - Tacoma 236 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Asphalt-1- 236 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairborn OH 236 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horizon Retail Construction Inc. 236 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.