Engineering services · Iowa

John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center

Waterloo, IA · ~1,492 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
0.3
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Engineering services workplace, earning a grade B.

John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center: 0.3 TCR = 52% of Engineering services BLS 0.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center safety composite

John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−0.4

2020→2021

John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center injury rate improved

John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center's TCR fell 0.4 from 0.5 in 2020 to 0.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 0.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.5 · 2021=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541330 · Waterloo, IA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 0.3 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/10
  • PHOTO SAMES Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~1,492 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SAMES Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center averages 0.3 TCR (52% of the Engineering services BLS benchmark).

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

John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center TCR series: 2020=0.5 · 2021=0.1 · BLS 0.5

Where John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center falls in its industry

690 Engineering services establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 10 Engineering services employers in Iowa.

John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center (1,492 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center
John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center (1,492 employees, TCR 0.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9

John Deere Waterloo Product Engineering Center has more employees than the Engineering services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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 0.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.5 0.2 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541330 · IA · Waterloo

690 Engineering services 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 SAMES Inc 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yates Engineering Services LLC 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patricio Enterprises 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ghirardelli Associates, Inc 0.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Council Bluffs Case Rdy Plant 1,486 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Deere Waterloo Works Product Engineering Center 1,508 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Ice Cream Plant 1,523 FTE
STATE-SIZE JD Waterloo Tractor & Cab Assembly Operations 1,437 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 HoneywellAZ17 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Globalfoundries Malta - Fab 8 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Peoplenet Communications Corp Minnetonka 0.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Haldor Topsoe, Inc. 0.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE OR001 1,492 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - ATL6 1,492 FTE
NAT-SIZE 600 Other 1,492 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Diego Ship Repair 1,492 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.