Blending animal feed · Iowa

Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo

Waterloo, IA · ~19 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.0
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo runs at 384% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Blending animal feed workplace, earning a grade F.

Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo: 15.0 TCR = 384% of Blending animal feed BLS 3.9 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo safety composite

Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−21.3

2019→2024

Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo injury rate improved

Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo's TCR fell 21.3 from 21.3 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 22.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=21.3 · 2020=11.3 · 2021=22.0 · 2022=18.7 · 2023=16.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.0 · 384% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #62/62
  • PHOTO GSC Ag
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GSC Ag (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo averages 15.0 TCR (384% of the Blending animal feed BLS benchmark).

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

Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo TCR series: 2019=21.3 · 2020=11.3 · 2021=22 · 2022=18.7 · 2023=16.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.9

Where Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo falls in its industry

756 Blending animal feed establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 62 Blending animal feed employers in Iowa.

Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo (19 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo
Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo (19 employees, TCR 15.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kent Nutrition Group- Waterloo has fewer employees than the Blending animal feed median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 16.5 11.0 3 0 0
2022 18.7 12.4 3 0 0
2021 22.0 11.0 3 1 0
2020 11.3 11.3 2 0 0
2019 21.3 17.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · IA · Waterloo

756 Blending animal feed 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR GSC Ag 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renaissance Logistics - Drivers 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm Service Elevator 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&L B&B/Double J Mill-Mountain Home 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative (Creston #1) 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Johnston Campus - JH15 Soybean Growth Chamber Building 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Midland Power Cooperative 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE main 19 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 Kre-Bsl Husky Veronica Drive Operation LLC 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hope Concrete Plant 17 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Adventure Park at Storrs 15.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Desert Palms Hotel & Suites 15.0 TCR

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: 2024, 2023, 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.