Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) · Iowa

John Deere Foundry

Waterloo, IA · ~554 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John Deere Foundry runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) workplace, earning a grade F.

John Deere Foundry: 7.5 TCR = 228% of Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John Deere Foundry safety composite

John Deere Foundry scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−3.9

2018→2021

John Deere Foundry injury rate improved

John Deere Foundry's TCR fell 3.9 from 9.4 in 2018 to 5.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.4 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331511 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 228% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #7/14
  • PHOTO Mando Corporation Am…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 102 inj
  • SIZE ~554 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mando Corporation America - G2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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John Deere Foundry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John Deere Foundry averages 7.5 TCR (228% of the Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) BLS benchmark).

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

John Deere Foundry TCR series: 2018=9.4 · 2020=7.7 · 2021=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where John Deere Foundry falls in its industry

272 Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 14 Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile employers in Iowa.

John Deere Foundry (554 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate John Deere Foundry
John Deere Foundry (554 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 7.2

John Deere Foundry has more employees than the Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2021 5.5 3.0 28 2 0
2020 7.7 4.0 32 5 0
2018 9.4 6.1 42 13 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331511 · IA · Waterloo

272 Foundries, iron (i.e., ductile, gray, malleable, semisteel) 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 Mando Corporation America - G2 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dalton Corporation 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renaissance Manufacturing Group Anniston, LLC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR McWane, Inc - MDU Plant 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fort Madison, IA 554 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAVENPORT (IADAV) 552 FTE
STATE-SIZE WinnMed 557 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mahaska County Hospital 558 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 Town Hall 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR American Keg Company 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kudzu Millwork 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 35 RCT Kankakee 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Instrumentation : Washington SPO215 554 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZLOO 554 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZELN 554 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wegmans McKinley 084 554 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: 2021, 2020, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.