Nursing homes · Iowa

Northcrest Specialty Care

Waterloo, IA · ~83 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northcrest Specialty Care runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade C.

Northcrest Specialty Care: 7.3 TCR = 113% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northcrest Specialty Care safety composite

Northcrest Specialty Care scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

−8.0

2016→2023

Northcrest Specialty Care injury rate improved

Northcrest Specialty Care's TCR fell 8.0 from 15.0 in 2016 to 7.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 71.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=15.0 · 2017=71.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2023=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 7.3 · 113% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #212/396
  • PHOTO ALARIS HEALTH AT CED…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ALARIS HEALTH AT CEDAR GROVE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northcrest Specialty Care in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northcrest Specialty Care averages 7.3 TCR (113% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Northcrest Specialty Care TCR series: 2016=15 · 2017=71.8 · 2019=0 · 2023=7 · BLS 6.5

Where Northcrest Specialty Care falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #212 safest of 396 Nursing homes employers in Iowa.

Northcrest Specialty Care (83 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Northcrest Specialty Care
Northcrest Specialty Care (83 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Northcrest Specialty Care has fewer employees than the Nursing homes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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
2023 7.0 5.6 5 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 71.8 35.9 6 0 0
2016 15.0 8.7 7 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · IA · Waterloo

15,252 Nursing homes 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 ALARIS HEALTH AT CEDAR GROVE 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bradford Heights 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huntington Living Center 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Landmark of Louisville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.A. Klinger, L.L.C. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concrete Paving Overhead East (7101) 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gethmann Construction Co., Inc. 83 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 Atlanta Gallery 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wilby High School 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Efengee Electrical Supply (Pc1028) 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City 135 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Abundant Christian Living Community 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jottan, Inc. 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution Center 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dellinger Precast 83 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: 2023, 2019, 2017, 2016. 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.