Employer · Iowa

O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo

Waterloo, IA · ~24 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo runs at 350% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo: 7.7 TCR = 350% of industry BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo safety composite

O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo: 0.0 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2023

O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo's TCR rose 13.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 13.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423510 · Waterloo, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 350% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #16/18
  • PHOTO Tri-Steel corporation
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tri-Steel corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo averages 7.7 TCR (350% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=4.3 · 2021=13.2 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=13.3 · BLS 2.2

Where O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo falls in its industry

1,299 industry establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 18 industry employers in Iowa.

O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo (24 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo
O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo (24 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 3.7

O'Neal Steel Incorporate_Waterloo has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 13.3 9.9 4 0 0
2022 7.7 3.9 2 0 0
2021 13.2 13.2 3 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423510 · IA · Waterloo

1,299 industry 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 Tri-Steel corporation 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR BRANCH 33 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Warminster 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Jersey 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Afton Warehouse 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northwood Sow Unit 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Belmond 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clarion, IA 24 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 Medic 1 Ambulance 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Slug-A-Bug 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR S03752 - WM - Laramie 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dick Campbell Company, Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE USA Freeland 9200 Garfield Rd 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE TOP Onions USA Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE TG Meat Center 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belmont, NH 24 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, 2022, 2021, 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.