Tractors and attachments, farm-type, manufacturing · Iowa

JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations

Waterloo, IA · ~1,437 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tractors and attachments, farm-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations: 5.0 TCR = 151% of Tractors and attachments, farm-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations safety composite

JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2018→2022

JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations injury rate improved

JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations's TCR fell 1.8 from 6.4 in 2018 to 4.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.4 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 151% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #31/65
  • PHOTO DURATECH INDUSTRIES …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 250 inj
  • SIZE ~1,437 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DURATECH INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations averages 5.0 TCR (151% of the Tractors and attachments, farm-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations TCR series: 2018=6.4 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=4.6 · BLS 3.3

Where JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations falls in its industry

433 Tractors and attachments, farm establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 65 Tractors and attachments, farm employers in Iowa.

JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations (1,437 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations
JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations (1,437 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations has more employees than the Tractors and attachments, farm-type, man median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2022 4.6 4.2 75 1 0
2021 2.9 2.5 40 1 0
2020 4.9 4.1 35 27 0
2019 6.1 4.7 44 35 0
2018 6.4 5.5 56 34 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · IA · Waterloo

433 Tractors and attachments, farm-type, 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 DURATECH INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doyle Equipment Manufacturing 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unverferth Manufacturing, Shell Rock Iowa Location 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR John Deere A and I Products 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Deere Waterloo Works Drive Train Operations 1,430 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mary Greeley Medical Center- Main Hospital 1,415 FTE
STATE-SIZE Covenant Medical Center 1,404 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Deere Davenport Works 1,394 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 Tops #236 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gerelco Traffic Controls, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Longwood Elastomers Inc W1 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR PSI3G, dba Partions Speacialties Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Advocate Health Care - Shared Revenue Cycle Organization 1,437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mco Orlando International Airport 1,437 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asplundh Tree Expert LLC 1,436 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fieldale Farms - Murrayville Plant 1,438 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, 2018. 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.