Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Iowa

Filter Minder

Waterloo, IA · ~41 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Filter Minder runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Filter Minder: 7.8 TCR = 145% of Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Filter Minder safety composite

Filter Minder scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Filter Minder: 4.8 → 17.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.82× in 2024

Filter Minder's TCR rose 13.0 from 4.8 in 2016 to 17.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 145% of ind

  • DART 14.3 DART
  • RANK #8/13
  • PHOTO Premier
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Premier (0.1 TCR gap)

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Filter Minder in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Filter Minder averages 7.8 TCR (145% of the Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Filter Minder TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2018=8.5 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=9.9 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=17.8 · BLS 5.4

Where Filter Minder falls in its industry

772 Air filters, automotive, truck establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

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 13 Air filters, automotive, truck employers in Iowa.

Filter Minder (41 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Filter Minder
Filter Minder (41 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Filter Minder has fewer employees than the Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 17.8 14.3 5 0 0
2023 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2021 9.9 7.4 4 0 0
2020 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2019 8.7 8.7 4 0 0
2018 8.5 6.4 4 0 0
2016 4.8 4.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · IA · Waterloo

772 Air filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing 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 Premier 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newman Technology of Alabama, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BedRug Inc 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 154 - Ranch Hand 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Iowa Falls Warehouse 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva-Dallas Center R&D 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Purelight Power of Des Moines 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE North West REC 41 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 Robertson Morrison Inc 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Progress West Hospital 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Branch 204 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR RET-SSH Store 28 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE L.J. Coppola Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Standley Batch Systems, Inc. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethany Village 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE 060-Quad Cities 41 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, 2016. 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.