Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Iowa

GATR Truck Center of Waterloo

Waterloo, IA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

GATR Truck Center of Waterloo runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade F.

GATR Truck Center of Waterloo: 6.8 TCR = 200% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

GATR Truck Center of Waterloo safety composite

GATR Truck Center of Waterloo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

GATR Truck Center of Waterloo: 5.1 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2023

GATR Truck Center of Waterloo's TCR rose 3.5 from 5.1 in 2022 to 8.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 200% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #27/31
  • PHOTO 2427
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2427 (0.0 TCR gap)

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GATR Truck Center of Waterloo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows GATR Truck Center of Waterloo averages 6.8 TCR (200% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

GATR Truck Center of Waterloo TCR series: 2022=5.1 · 2023=8.6 · BLS 3.4

Where GATR Truck Center of Waterloo falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 31 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Iowa.

GATR Truck Center of Waterloo (22 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate GATR Truck Center of Waterloo
GATR Truck Center of Waterloo (22 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

GATR Truck Center of Waterloo has fewer employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 8.6 4.3 2 0 0
2022 5.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · IA · Waterloo

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used 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 2427 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deery Brothers, Inc. 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Billion Kia of Missoula 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HO Inc 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Ankeny, IA 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Mt. Ayr) 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kevin D. Moellers 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheldon 22 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 LeafGuard of Greenville 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Senske Lawn and Tree Care - Yakima 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR St Julien Hotel & Spa 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100597 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ernest-Spencer Custom Coatings 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stryker Construction, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrisburg Feed 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norfolk w/JV 22 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. 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.