General Freight Trucking Long Distance · Iowa

Panther - Waterloo, IA

Waterloo, IA · ~28 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Panther - Waterloo, IA runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General Freight Trucking Long Distance workplace, earning a grade A.

Panther - Waterloo, IA: 2.2 TCR = 48% of General Freight Trucking Long Distance BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Panther - Waterloo, IA safety composite

Panther - Waterloo, IA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Panther - Waterloo, IA: 3.6 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.45× in 2021

Panther - Waterloo, IA's TCR rose 1.7 from 3.6 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Waterloo, IA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.2 · 48% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #31/69
  • PHOTO Atchison, KS - Indus…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atchison, KS - Industrial Road (0.0 TCR gap)

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Panther - Waterloo, IA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Panther - Waterloo, IA averages 2.2 TCR (48% of the General Freight Trucking Long Distance BLS benchmark).

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

Panther - Waterloo, IA TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=4.1 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Panther - Waterloo, IA falls in its industry

3,252 General Freight Trucking Long establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 69 General Freight Trucking Long employers in Iowa.

Panther - Waterloo, IA (28 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Panther - Waterloo, IA
Panther - Waterloo, IA (28 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Panther - Waterloo, IA has fewer employees than the General Freight Trucking Long Distance median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 5.3 5.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2016 3.6 3.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · IA · Waterloo

3,252 General Freight Trucking Long Distance 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 Atchison, KS - Industrial Road 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Klug Transport, Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR TMC Transportation - Gaston 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR T D Beck Trucking LLC 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE IOWA ADMIN 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pocahontas Warehouse 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE WCT Crystal Lake 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHE - Council Bluff W Broadway (IA001) 28 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 John Deere Reman Springfield - Engine Factory 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Smoot Construction - Company of Ohio 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Triton Marine Construction Corp. HAWAII 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Amarr Entrematic 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE California Pacific Medical Center (274-CC-DMD) 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Pacific Medical Center (274-CC-RLW) 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Merchandise Express Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation (272-CAL3) 28 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.