Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard · Iowa

IP Waterloo NAC

Waterloo, IA · ~84 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

IP Waterloo NAC runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade A.

IP Waterloo NAC: 1.5 TCR = 45% of Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

IP Waterloo NAC safety composite

IP Waterloo NAC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

IP Waterloo NAC: 1.2 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2018

IP Waterloo NAC's TCR rose 1.0 from 1.2 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Waterloo, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 45% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #4/15
  • PHOTO Menasha Packaging Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Menasha Packaging Company - Santa Fe Springs (0.0 TCR gap)

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IP Waterloo NAC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows IP Waterloo NAC averages 1.5 TCR (45% of the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

IP Waterloo NAC TCR series: 2016=1.2 · 2017=1.1 · 2018=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where IP Waterloo NAC falls in its industry

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 15 Boxes, corrugated and solid fi employers in Iowa.

IP Waterloo NAC (84 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0123456 Average employees Total Case Rate IP Waterloo NAC
IP Waterloo NAC (84 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

IP Waterloo NAC has fewer employees than the Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2018 2.2 1.1 2 0 0
2017 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2016 1.2 1.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · IA · Waterloo

1,338 Boxes, corrugated and solid fiber, made from purchased paper or paperboard 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 Menasha Packaging Company - Santa Fe Springs 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Paper Russellville Sheet 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Safeway Packaging 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vermont Container Corp 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stueve Construction LLC (All Locations) 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.W. Koehler Electric, Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE ProPulse A Schieffer Co 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Machining Company 84 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 Ayden Court Nursing & Rehab 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Feed Mill 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Indiana American Water-Jeffersonville District 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tops #410 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 5101 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keleman-Bauer Construction Inc. DBA Edbauer Construction 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE 38-Richmond Terminal 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henry Technologies 84 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.