Government - Transportation · Iowa

Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage

Waterloo, IA · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Government - Transportation workplace, earning a grade D.

Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage: 4.5 TCR = 139% of Government - Transportation BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage safety composite

Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.4

2019→2022

Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage injury rate improved

Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage's TCR fell 8.4 from 8.4 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.4 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 926120 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 139% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/15
  • PHOTO Port of Port Angeles
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Port of Port Angeles (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage averages 4.5 TCR (139% of the Government - Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage TCR series: 2019=8.4 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage falls in its industry

208 Government - Transportation establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 15 Government - Transportation employers in Iowa.

Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage (27 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage
Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage (27 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Iowa DOT - Waterloo Garage has fewer employees than the Government - Transportation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 9.4 0.0 2 0 0
2019 8.4 4.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

926120 · IA · Waterloo

208 Government - Transportation 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 Port of Port Angeles 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Central Region WSDOT 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR KYTC District 2 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR D3 Materials Laboratory 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2520-Storm Lake, IA (Monsanto Co.) 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wastewater Treatment Plant 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quality Construction Services, Inc. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Weitz Company - Mission Critical - Microsoft DSM 14 27 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 Agawam Distribution 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR RTO-ODFL 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Friends Health Care Assoication 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 54 - Rosedale 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Public Services Utilities Maintenance 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azusa - Reichhold 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grand Junction Endoscopy Center 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zigler's Machine & Metal Works, LLC 27 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.